Creating A Cron Job To Run A Php Script.

[dwayne dibbly]

Well i asked here and got what i thought was the answer to my problems, However it seemed not as if i ran my photo insertion script manualy it inserted the photo's to my data base as it should, But when the cron job did it nothing was inserted.

 

 

So i have done some research and because the php server api is apache and not cgi i had to do a different cron.

 

the one i had was..

 

/usr/bin/php -q /home/your_cpanel_name/public_html/path/to/script/script.php

 

 

This ran once an hour and basicaly buggered it up.

 

I have subsequently found that to run a succesfull cron job using apache i have to use...

 

 

lynx -dump http://www.mysite.com/path/to/the/script/script.php

 

and this now works.

 

I hope this may be helpful to some people who are in need of a script running automaticaly using a cron.

 

 

Perhaps this could be included in a FAQ somewhere as it took me a long time to find what i needed...

Edited April 2, 2006 by dwayne dibbly

[TCH-Bruce]

I'm glad you found a solution to run your script. Depending on how the script was written would determine the method of running it. The /usr/bin/php example you gave is the proper way to run a script on the server.

 

Using lynx -dump is calling the script as a brower would and not the same.

[TweezerMan]

Using lynx -dump is calling the script as a brower would and not the same.

Not to mention that the last I heard, access to command line browsers (such as lynx) was supposed to be removed from all servers.

 

If your script has to be called through a browser, TCH-MikeJ described the proper method for doing this (same forum topic as linked above), using a second script to call your script with a PHP include.

[dwayne dibbly]

Not to mention that the last I heard, access to command line browsers (such as lynx) was supposed to be removed from all servers.

 

If your script has to be called through a browser, TCH-MikeJ described the proper method for doing this (same forum topic as linked above), using a second script to call your script with a PHP include.

 

 

Thanks for the advanced notice of turning it off (NOT) it wasnt untill i had people telling me photos were not appearing that i had a look and you turned it off 4 days ago.

 

Still not to worry looks like i will try that other way you told me about but it would have been nice to have been warned.