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Wouter60 · 07-15-2015, 10:19 PM

I would like to run a cronjob on my website.
My application is in a folder called app1
So to refer to my index.php, the path is ./app1/index.php
My controller for cronjobs is Cronjobs.php, which is in the application/controllers folder of CI.
In my controller, there is a method called cleanup.

The command for the cronjob is this:

Code:
/bin/php ./app1/index.php cronjobs cleanup

According to CI's documentation about CLI, this is the correct format.
However, it is only executing the index.php. The e-mail that my hosting provider sends to my admin address, contains all html code of the home page, including a lot of php errors.

What am I doing wrong?

skunkbad · 07-15-2015, 11:25 PM

(07-15-2015, 10:19 PM)Wouter60 Wrote: I would like to run a cronjob on my website.
My application is in a folder called app1
So to refer to my index.php, the path is ./app1/index.php
My controller for cronjobs is Cronjobs.php, which is in the application/controllers folder of CI.
In my controller, there is a method called cleanup.

The command for the cronjob is this:

Code:
/bin/php ./app1/index.php cronjobs cleanup

According to CI's documentation about CLI, this is the correct format.
However, it is only executing the index.php. The e-mail that my hosting provider sends to my admin address, contains all html code of the home page, including a lot of php errors.

What am I doing wrong?

With cron on many hosts you should consider using an absolute path to index.php. On many hosts that ends up being something like:

Code:
/home/<youraccount>/public_html/index.php

Everything else you are doing seems fine. What kind of errors do you see in that email?

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Wouter60 · 07-16-2015, 11:06 AM

The problem is not that my index.php couldn't be found. That seems to work fine.
The e-mail I got, contains a complete html dump of my website's home page, like this:

Code:
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.29

Set-Cookie: ci_session=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; path=/; HttpOnly

Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT

Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0

Pragma: no-cache

Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html lang="nl">

<head>

...

</head>

<body>

...

</body>

</html>

So, the method cleanup inside my cronjobs controller is not executed.
My Cronjobs.php:

PHP Code:
<?php
class Cronjobs extends CI_Controller {

  function __construct()
  {
    parent::__construct();
    if (!$this->input->is_cli_request()) show_error('Direct access is not allowed');
  }

  public function cleanup()
  {
    ...
  }

} 

I also tried the -f parameter in front of the path to index.php, but same result...