Simple Cron Job

Basq

Hey there guys,

Trying to do a simply enough cron job in Cron Management simply executes a PHP file daily (which invokes schedule mailing / database functions etc).

The command I'm using is:

/usr/bin/wget "http://www.<domainname>.com/<filename>.php"

Obviously placeholders are a valid domain name and filename. When I execute the page above, it works as normal so what am I missing?

Probably something simple, but any help would be appreciated!

I found your Cron Job Management video alright.. but wasn't specific to my problem.

Thanks in advance.

mneylon

You might want to ping our support desk about this - I know we've had to lockdown some commands on our shared servers though I'm not sure offhand if "wget" was one of them
They'd be able to advise anyway ..

Basq

Will do.. thanks BK.

oledaveoh

Any news on wget, Basq? 
Im having problems setting crons too.

Basq

oledaveoh wrote: »

Any news on wget, Basq? 
Im having problems setting crons too.

Got it sorted used someone with Blacknight technical support... my cron script is as follows:

/usr/bin/php /usr/local/pem/vhosts/<WEBSPACEID>/webspace/httpdocs/<DOMAIN>/<PHPFILE>

Where:

< WEBSPACEID > is your 6 digit webspace ID, <DOMAIN> is the folder in which your domain resides in under httpdocs, the <PHPFILE> is the path to the PHP file.

Hope this helps!

oledaveoh

Basq wrote: »

Got it sorted used someone with Blacknight technical support... my cron script is as follows:



Where:

< WEBSPACEID > is your 6 digit webspace ID, <DOMAIN> is the folder in which your domain resides in under httpdocs, the <PHPFILE> is the path to the PHP file.

Hope this helps!

Thanks for the quick reply but I actually just fixed it by replacing wget with curl.