[Resolved] Cron Job Trouble

[nemonoman]

My server tech people are having trouble getting cron to run a php script I've written. Is there some kind of trick? RedHat Linux on the server. Thanks.

[jerdo]

The easiest way to run PHP scripts from crons is to make sure they have PHP installed with the CLI option, otherwise you have to do some fun links/lynx calls in the cron.

[m_tt]

Can you post the cron?

Typical cron:

/5 /usr/bin/php /path/to/your/script.php

runs every 5 minutes..

[max_rk]

try this:

/5 /path/to/php -f /path/to/your/php/script.php

Max.rk

[stolzyboy]

actually the easiest way is to use wget, you just use wget (installed by default on redhat linux) and setup the cron job that way, do a yahoo.com search for running php page with cron wget, and there will be examples out there, depending on how they are doing it, there are different ways to do it, you can do it command line, you just edit crontab -e with vi or if they are at the physical machine, there is something called task scheduler, where they can set the cron to run, they need to set it up with apache as running it to make it work

[nemonoman]

Thanks to all.

Problem was with my script as follows:

I specified

$directory='../cronoutput';

I needed to use a full path, finally supplied by my server support folks:

$directory="/home/virtual/mydomain.com/var/www/html/cronoutput";