Re: [cobalt-users] PHP and crontab

[Kris Dahl <krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 6/3/00 11:23 AM, Joe Bonner at jobo@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> I am trying to use crontab to run a PHP script every 15 minutes on a Raq3.
> Got the timing, and the path set up correctly, but I get a permission denied
> error when it tries to run. Anyone have a solution, work around, or other
> method to automatically run a PHP script? PHP3 is installed as an Apache
> module.

How are you going about running it?

The reason I as is because technically, PHP is a preparser language, not a
scripting language.  PHP doesn't have an interpreter on a command line type
basis--it requires Apache to parse the file with mod_php.  I suppose if you
have PHP installed as a CGI you could probably get it to work on the command
line, I guess.

so, if you are doing somthing like (in your crontab);
0 0 * * * * /home/sites/home/web/myscript.php3
its definitely not going to work.

0 0 * * * * curl http://www.yoursite.com/myscript.php3
0 0 * * * * lynx -dump http://www.yoursite.com/myscript.php3
will every night at midnight will execute cURL (a killer command line stdout
web browser/tool) or use Lynx to essentially do the same thing,
respectively.

-k