ansaurus

Question

Answer 1

+2 A:

Try:

wget http://domain.com/cron/script.php

and see if you get a better result.

lacqui 2009-03-28 04:42:24

Mine may work, but you may want to look at chaos's better-reasoned answer.

lacqui 2009-03-28 04:59:16

Answer 2

+7 A:

Put a leading slash on the script name, i.e.

/usr/bin/php /home/domain.com/public_html/cron/script.php

Unless you actually intend to run the script through the web, as in lacqui's answer, and you don't mind random third parties being able to run it any time they like, there's no reason you should put it inside your public_html directory; quite the opposite.

chaos 2009-03-28 04:44:58

Good point about not making the script public.

lacqui 2009-03-28 04:50:28

I'll add here because it's probably not obvious to OP: by random third parties being able to run it 'any time they like', I also mean 'many times a second'. Since CPU-intensive and memory-intensive tasks are often candidates for cron jobs, you may be handing people an easy denial of service attack.

chaos 2009-03-28 05:08:16

Only if you don't make sure it isn't already running first. Use your database to create a guard "CRON last started at " timestamp. Then in your cron don't run if the timestamp is X minutes/hours old.

jmucchiello 2009-06-12 01:59:19

Cem Kalyoncu 2009-09-17 10:34:42

Answer 3

+1 A:

You might need to use the binary known as php-cli instead of just php.

X-Istence 2009-03-28 05:08:00

That's for windows, in *nix you just use /usr/bin/php. And by the mention of cron its definitely *nix environment.

Cem Kalyoncu 2009-09-17 10:33:04

@cemkalyoncu: Some systems ship a seperate php-cli that contains extra stuff like readline, and others. Can come in handy on the command line.

X-Istence 2009-09-17 19:38:34

ansaurus

tags:

views:

answers:

How to run a php script in cron

related questions