running php script on server itself.

[Anon]

Hello again all,

Hoping someone can shed some light on this one for me.

I have a php file i want to run as a cron job. However the first port of call is to get the php file to execute on the server. Im having more trouble with this than i had hoped for.

If i do lynx http://www.mydomain.com/file.php it works fine and the script runs no problems.

however, due to DNS setup issues, i cant use the http:// part......but instead want to use the path to the file instead.

if i do "lynx /dir/to/file.php" then all i get is the code istelf converted into an html page, rather than the script actually executing.
I tried "lynx -source /dir/to/file.php" but all that did was spit the code back at me as well.

Im hoping someone can shed some light on how i might be able to do this..

Many thanx

Dave

[ogge1]

What about running PHP -f <filename> >output.html ?

/Fredrik

[Anon]

i want to actually excecute the code inside the php file.......whihc happens to be mysql commands.......

Dave

[Anon]

If you have the PHP CGI Executable, you should be able to execute the code with the following:

php -q /path/to/your/file.php

or for help on using php standalone, use

php -h

easy as that, it'll execute it also 🙂