Running a php file with cron

Anon

Hi,
Looking through the archives here, I found info relating to a problem similar to mine. A solution to get this working was:
create a file such as cronfile.txt and put the following line in:
* lynx -dump http://www.domain.com/sendreminder.php3 > /dev/null
lynx seems to open up a browser window, and "dumps" the php info into the browser - I don't know if my web host will allow this.

Then instructs to:
crontab cronfile.txt

Anyway it doesn't seem to work. The file should interact with the database to get an email address, then send it out, deleting the entry in the database when it finishes.

Does anyone have any ideas to get this working, or any other way to do this?

Thanks,
Dave

Anon

I got an email to my account with this error message:

lynx: not found

If I just use lynx on the the command prompt, everything works fine!

Please help,

Dave

Anon

Find the path to the lynx executable with "which lynx". Then put in the full path in your crontab.

An alternative is wget, which is actually written for this very purpose, as opposed to lynx, which was meant to be interactive.

Anon

Thanks Gerald,

I tried your suggestion but came up with a different error message:
lynx: Can't access startfile
http://www.domain.com/folder/script.php3

Taking your advice I also tried wget, receiving this error message:
http://www.domain.com:80/folder/script.php3
=> script.php3
Connecting to www.mydomain.com:80... connected!
HTTP request send awaiting response.. 404 Not Found
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
I know this file is there! It works fine if I run it manually.

Please help with either of these functions, it doesn't matter which one works, I'll try both! 🙂

Dave