cronjob not working

[AlexMcCann]

i have problems seting cronjobs - they dont want to work

for instance:

Minute Hour Day of
Month Month Day of
Week Command Select
*/35 * * * * /home/admin/domains/xxxx.com/public_html/admin/yyyy.php

-it dosent work

but if i run the file in browser than it works

i tried several things but nothing worked. Any ideas what i am doing wrong?

Thanks!

 

[nobaloney]

php programs run through your browser aren't run by the standalone php interpreter but rather by a php module installed into apache.

To test the program you'll need to try that command from the shell command line.

Even that may not be a good test, because the browser runs the program as user apache, and you'll most likely be testing it as some other user.

I'd do:

$ whereis php

to find out where your php program is located, and then try:

$ /complete/path/to/php /home/admin/domains/xxxx.com/public_html/admin/yyyy.php

to see if it works that way, and then if it does, put it into your cronjob that way.

Jeff

 

[AlexMcCann]

it worked - thanks

 

[rtaylor]

$ /complete/path/to/php /home/admin/domains/xxxx.com/public_html/admin/yyyy.php

to see if it works that way, and then if it does, put it into your cronjob that way.

Jeff

This helped me, too. Thank you, Jeff!

 

[jfm]

cronjob to run php script

im having trouble getting cronjobs to run a php script.
where do i find the shell command line ?

please help. pat

 

[nobaloney]

You do a shell login. Of course you can't do that unless your hosting company allows it. Your best course of action is probably to contact your hosting company.

Jeff

 

[jfm]

Thanks

thanks anyway.