CRON JOB gurus what is wrong with this ??
 

One of the scripts I purchased wants me to set a cron job as follows

0 * * * * php "path to your website dir"/cron.php

So I set it up like this in Cpanel on a shared hosting account in the Advanced (Unix Style)

Minute Hour Day Month Weekday Command
0 * * * * /home/username/public_html/cron.php


I keep getting emails saying this

/bin/sh: /home/usermname/public_html/cron.php: Permission denied

Does this mean that the cron job is not being done or being denied permissions or does it mean my email address is not acepting emails from the cron job


If it is the cron job that is being denied should I change the file permissions on the cron.php or have I done something else wrong

Thanks

Not a guru by any means but maybe the file needs execute permissions.

make sure the path to php is right

or there's in error in the path

change file permision so that user that is running that cron command can execute the file

(make the file executable for it's owner)

Not sure about cPanel, but with DirectAdmin you use the URL, so public_html would not be in the path.

{PATH TO PHP} is usual /usr/local/bin/php

{PATH TO PHP} /home/******/public_html/cron.php

If you set it up like this:

/home/username/public_html/cron.php

try this way instead (adding php and a space):

php /home/username/public_html/cron.php

If you just use /home/username/public_html/cron.php, the system will try to execute it as a shell script, I think, which causes the above error.

You forgot to put "php" in front of the file you wanted to run.

ha I think thats the problem because the installation says set the cron up as this

0 * * * * php "path to your website dir"/cron.php

It has the "php" with a space in front


thanks :thumbsup

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if that doesn't work, try full path to php /usr/bin/php or /usr/local/bin/php

thanks .. I just realised what I had done when m4yadult posted


thanks guys for the help :thumbsup

No problem.

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Yep and its free ....people bitch about GFY all the time :(

I have asked for help a number of times on GFY and people on here have always helped

Thanks GFY and all the peeps that have helped me over the last 2 years :thumbsup

needs path to php...

example
0 * * * * /usr/bin/php -q /home/user/public_html/cron.php

you can also use some other command such as get or wget

0 * * * * GET http://www.yoursite.com/cron.php
0 * * * * wget http://www.yoursite.com/cron.php

make sure the php file has a shebang

yep :) .