Re: [cobalt-users] PHP and crontab

["Simon Weller" <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You'll have to compile PHP as a stand alone cgi if you want to use cron tab. 
You can't use the apache module for it.

- Si

> 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
> 
> 
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