Cron tabs using a file in a password protected directory

I want to use a cron job to load a file which is in the admin area of one of my sites. How do I get round the password protection using the cron?

Cheers

 

http://loginassword@www.thesite.com/adminarea/tool.php

 

Wow you're up to 15K posts now.

I'm doing it through cpanel and I'm accessing it with /home/<user>/public_html/admin/file.php

 

You should be able to access it via the file system. The webserver doesn't have any control over that.

 

Just giving what you said a go now exam.

-> No such file or directory

Do I need to put in the HTTP:// before the www?

 

Hmmm no. If you have a directory say

http://www.somesite.com/secret/

That's protected via HTTP authentication,
You should be able to log in automatically by browsing to

http://usernameassword@www.somesite.com/secret/

 

But is that what you would use in the cron tab?

Man I'm confused! lol

 

No, that's just the URL to go to in your cron tab.

A cron job might look like this:

12 20 * * * root curl "http://username:password@www.somesite.com/secret/s.php"

Code (markup):

If you have curl installed, this will call the s.php script every day at 8:12 pm
Teh *** stands for day, month and weekday respectively.

 

I just put them in the cpanel

I tried using curl before but gave up lol. If I can't get it to work in cpanel I'll give that a go.

Thanks again exam.

The solution is chmoding the file to 700 and putting php in front of the path to the file.

So it would be;

php /home/cpanelname/public_html/admin/file.php