Automated call

Anon

I have 2 pages which need to be executed every night. As I only know PHP, I wrote them as PHP-pages. My webmaster would then install a script in the cronjob which simply calls these pages.

Problem is (maybe a simple one, but I don't know anything about Unix) that those pages may not be called by my users, only by myself if I want to do it manualy, and every night by the server (cronjob).

Off course, I can first use a login-page which verifies my identity, but can the cronjob do the same? Or how do I solve the problem?

I was thinking of building a page which is only readable by the machine (limit access, like not readable by the world?), which contains the login + password and which then calls for the other page?

Anon

Simple answer man - put this script in a folder that is password protected - ask your host about .htaccess. Once installed and put into a folder, anyone that tries to go to that file via a browser, will be prompted for a username and password. However, because cronjobs are processed server-side, the script will be processed without a problem

-=Lazzerous=-

Anon

That simple. Thx! Need to learn about Unix, I know 🙂

Anon

Some hints.

Either your unix box has php as a cgi executable (wich may be doubtfull) and then you will be able to run your php file as a usual script, either it's in a apache as a module, and then you will have to launch it by requesting the file via http.

If this is the case, you will be able to use wget from within a script that will be called by cron.

ie : wget http://user:pass@unixbox/yourphpscript.php

You can download it at:
http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~prikryl/wget.html