CRON a .php file ?

Anon

is it possible to cron a .php file? I can run it from a browser but cron says:

cannot open ?: no such file

my cron entry is:
0 0 * /www/vhosts/domain.com/htdocs/file.php

I have max permissions on it and have double checked typing.

Any ideas?

Anon

Randy,

seems like you can't open a php file directly. Also depends on how you php is installed (CGI or module).
For CGI, search for articles on "using php as a scripting engine" - I have seen it out there, but I can't remember where.
If php is installed as a module, you could write a perl script that generates a http request to your web server invoking the php script. This perl script you'd put into the cron tab. I don't do perl, but this shouldn't be too hard - maybe some nice perl guru out there could post such a script, can't be more than two or three lines.

Stefan

paha77

i use lynx to do this:

create a shell script like that:

#!/bin/sh
lynx -dump /dev/null http://www.mydomain.com/cron.php

and you can run this from cron.

using wget is also a good solution:

#!/bin/sh
wget --spider -q http://www.mydomain.com/cron.php

i think...

malcx

if you've got php installed as a binary - add the following line (or similar) to the top of your php script to make it executable through a cron job...

#!/usr/bin/php

(thats the location of php)

Mal

Anon

which php

gives u location of php

generally /usr/bin/php

so ur cron becomes

0 0 * php ~/www/htdocs/a.php

N joy
Mandar

jrmckee

I like to use curl. Install curl on your server and use it to run the php script through cron:

0 0 * /usr/local/bin/curl http://yourdomain.com/file.php

Jon

Anon

I do not know if someone has replied to your help but this is how you can do it

Open a terminal connect to your server and type

where is php

Most probably you will get this
/usr/local/bin/php

then add this to the first line in the PHP file you want to run with your crontab

#!/usr/local/bin/php
<?# your PHP code goes in here
?>