Cron Jobs (broken)

[craig@rtech.co.nz]

Hey guys,

I need to setup a cronjob like :
my_domain_name/index.php?option=com_easysocial&cron=true&phrase=nottellingyou

Comes up with script not found however :
my_domain_name/index.php

Creates the cronjob fine.

So Im guessing Sentora, thinking it's a smart cookie looks for the file name which doesn't exist beyond index.php and spits the dummy. Any ideas on how to fix?


Craig

[TGates]

This may help: http://forums.sentora.org/showthread.php...72#pid6072

[Me.B]

you can create a file mycron.php that curl the URL and setup the cron to run that file.

M B

[TGates]

you can create a file mycron.php that curl the URL and setup the cron to run that file.

M B

Me.B,
Can you post an example on that linked page above? Will be nice to have more examples

[Me.B]

Create a file mycron.php:

Code:

<?php
       // create curl resource
       $ch = curl_init();
     $myurl="my_domain_name/index.php?option=com_easysocial&cron=true&phrase=nottellingyou";

       // set url
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $myurl);

       //return the transfer as a string
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

       // $output contains the output string
       $output = curl_exec($ch);

       // close curl resource to free up system resources
       curl_close($ch);      
?>

PHP Docs
http://php.net/manual/en/curl.examples.php
Then create a cron in sentora to run mycron.php.

That would do the trick.

M B

[MickeMM]

Hey guys,

I need to setup a cronjob like :
my_domain_name/index.php?option=com_easysocial&cron=true&phrase=nottellingyou

Comes up with script not found however :
my_domain_name/index.php

Creates the cronjob fine.

So Im guessing Sentora, thinking it's a smart cookie looks for the file name which doesn't exist beyond index.php and spits the dummy.  Any ideas on how to fix?


Craig

I use joomla to, but for jomsocial. I dont use Sentoras cron, but crontab instead.
crontab -e
This is mine:
*/10 * * * * lynx -source "http://www.my_domain/index.php?option=com_community&task=cron" > /dev/null
Every 10 min it checking jomsocial for sending email or transcode.
If you dont have lynx, just install it with apt-get install lynx

[Me.B]

Why installing lynx?? You already have Wget that can do it or curl.

M B

[MickeMM]

Why installing lynx?? You already have Wget that can do it or curl.

M B

Lynx has work best for me when i run cron for joomla. U can use wget or curl as you say, but i have got problems with both, thats why i use lynx.