Running PHP Scripts on CRON

[DarkFenix]

i can't running php scripts on cron... can anyone help me with this??


i try this:


Minute 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,50,55
Hour *
Day of Month *
Month *
Day of Week *

and the command:

/home/dktech/domains/mydomain/public_html/script.php

or

php /home/dktech/domains/mydomain/public_html/script.php

doesn't happen anythink... why?


tks for any help please :|

 

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

php scripts arn't executable as they are unless they either have:

#!/usr/local/bin/php

at the top of the file, or you have the cron command set as:

/usr/local/bin/php /home/dktech/domains/mydomain/public_html/script.php

John

 

[DarkFenix]

tks for help me, i will see now if that works... Thanks

 

[hostpc.com]

We use (in crontab)

5 * * * * wget http://www.domain.com/path/to/cron > /dev/null 2>&1

That does a physical "touch" of the page... similar to above, but you dont have to have the wrapper.

Hope that helps.

Joe

 

[bob_gps]

After starting by cron my php script I receive following message:
"Warning: fopen(/home/name/domains/site.com/public_html/folder/file):
failed to open stream: Permission denied"
If I run this script from browser it works.
File attributes 666. Where I'm wrong?

 

[sullise]

Look in your php.ini and see if you have url_fopen disabled.

 

[hostpc.com]

chmod 755 filename.php

 

[sullise]

lol..didn't see the 666..yeah..what Joe said there..

 

[redesb]

If you use 'wget' is better to add the '-O -' option for don't get writed the downloaded file to the disk, only to 'stdout' and if your file is in one protected dir you can add the options '--http-user=USERNAME --http-password=PASS', see bellow:

wget -O - --http-user=USERNAME --http-password=PASS [url]http://www.example.com/protected/script.php[/url] > /dev/null 2>&1

But as security option I have 'wget' disabled to all users except root, and I prefer to use 'lynx' (more secure) like this:

lynx -dump -auth=ID:PASS [url]http://www.example.com/protected/script.php[/url] > /dev/null 2>&1

The '-dump' option is for get the output on 'stdout' and the '-auth=IDASS' because I have the script in one protected dir, omit if not your case.