Automated PHP script

Anon

I have seen many posts about this topic, and have tried to follow ways to remedy this, but I can't seem to get it to work. Any help would be appreciated.

I can run my script fine through a browser, but I want to automate it to run hourly. I have tried adding it to my cron process, but it will not work. I have tried to manually run the following command when I am in the directory with the file...

wget ./check_forums.php3

I get this error returned:

--17:32:59-- http://.:80/check_forums.php3
(try:20) => `check_forums.php3.1'
Connecting to .:80... connected!
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
Read error (Connection reset by peer) in headers.
Giving up.

I have also tried:

lynx -dump ./check_forums.php3

It runs and displays the code in the telnet session, but doesn't generate a logfile entry like it would if run through a brower.

I am pretty new to php, so any help would be great.

Additional Info:
Running BSD, on a "vserver" with hostpro.com.

I have chmod'd the file to 775.

Thanks,
Don

Anon

try:

wget http://localhost/check_forums.php3

or whereever that script is... the problem is that wget has to retrieve the page by http.. and "./whatever" means use the server named "." and retrieve the file named "/whatever" (which clearly isn't what you want). One solution is to use wget and the full server name "http://yourserver/path/to/file"

Another solution, if you have php compiled as a cgi instead of a module, is to simply run "php ./check_forums.php3". This will execute that file. You'll need to have php in your path, or you can execute the fill file-name, "/path/to/php ./check_forums.php3". If you want this in a cron, I suggest you have the full path for both... i.e.) "/path/to/php /other/path/to/check_forums.php3"

-Andy

rodif_bl

well or you can just compile php without apache. By doing this you can call php from a command line.

php check_forums.php3

recompile php without compiling it into a webserver software.

jc94062

I contacted my hosters about this when I wanted to automate a file, they suggested I do this...

20 /usr/local/bin/php www.mysite.com/public/test.php

The 20 obviously just runs it 20 mins past the hour, and the other bits need to be changed but its worth a shot if all else has failed