CRON setup

[scottmcarthur]

Hi PPL

I am trying to use CRON to run a php script in my account, but I am unsure of the command to use. I tried:

/home/<username>/cron_tasks/status.php

"cron_tasks" is a folder i created in the base of my account - outside my public_html.

I am getting a Permission Denied responce from CRON daemon.

So how do I get it to run the PHP page as if it was browsing it ?

Can somebody help ?

Cheers,
Scott

[agix]

Did you set the execute flag on the script file?

[scottmcarthur]

Thanks for the suggestion ...

Still having problems - I just tried changing the permissions of the file to 755 to allow execution - but the problem is it not using PHP to parse it. Instead it is trying to execute the PHP file as an application which obviously its not.

So the question still remains - how do you CRON a php file ?

I think I would need to give it some command to navigate to it ?

[scottmcarthur]

Hello,


I finally solved my own problem :love3:

If you are interested to know the code required to run PHP scripts automatically:

/home/<directory>/<script.php>

/usr/local/bin/php /home/(username)/(directory)/(scriptname.php) >/dev/null

Its logical after all that!

[agix]

Just curious,

Did you create the file as standard php or did you create a type called "shell script"?

because with shell script I don't need the "/usr/local/bin/php"

Agix