Cron

[DavidPr]

Does anyone here know anything about crons?

My web hosting company (IX Webhosting) offers me no help.

To enter a cron I have to open my Control Panel - open FTP manager and open Crontab. I enter this for the day, time and command:

5 1 * * 1
/usr/bin/curl -s -o /dev/null/hsphere/local/home/myusername/mysite.com/scripts/remove.php

I just received an email from my server giving me the results of the cron:

curl: no URL specified!
curl: try 'curl --help' for more information

Supposedly, the script should run 5 minutes after 1:00am every Sunday. This cron job has been installed for over one month and I just now received one email telling me that it doesn't work.

I've also tried this:

0 * * * *
php /hsphere/local/home/myusername/mysite.com/scripts/remove.php

I recieved this message:

/bin/sh: php: command not found

Anyone have any ideas how I can put together a cron that actually works? I'm on a shared hosting server (like 98% of all websites), and it uses unix or linux.

Thanks

[pbmods]

Heya, David.

Compare your settings against this handy-dandy reference:
cron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

If you have shell access, use `which php` to find out where PHP is installed on your server (most likely /usr/bin/php or /usr/local/bin/php).

Otherwise, you can fake it by creating a quick PHP script to find out:

<?php echo `which php`; ?>
 

Note that those are backticks, not quotes:
PHP: Execution Operators - Manual

[DavidPr]

IXWebhosting does not allow Shell access. They use a program called WebShell, which is their FTP program, which is accessed by clicking on the File Manager icon in the Control Panel. I don't think they use C-Panel as their Control Panel, I believe it's their own design.

WebShell displays all of your domains and the folders and files located within each one. In my domain I have a folder called cgi-bin and in it is:

Php-cgi - 20.924MB
Php4-cgi - 5.296MB
Php5-cgi - 21.275MB

I assume this is the Php program's for my website.

[DavidPr]

I'll try this:

/usr/bin/php /hsphere/local/home/myusername/mysite.com/scripts/remove.php

We'll see.

[DavidPr]

Well I've tried these:

/usr/bin/php/hsphere/local/home/myusername/mysite.com/scripts/raw_remove.php: No such file or directory

/user/bin/hsphere/local/home/myusername/mysite.com/scripts/raw_remove.php: No such file or directory

/usr/local/bin/php/hsphere/local/home/myusername/mysite.com/scripts/raw_remove.php: No such file or directory

/usr/local/bin/hsphere/local/home/myusername/mysite.com/scripts/raw_remove.php: No such file or directory

/hsphere/local/home/myusername/mysite.com/scripts/raw_remove.php: Permission denied

The chmod for the immediate above is set to 755. So far, nothing I've tried has worked.

[nizamkhir]

/hsphere/shared/php5/bin/php /local/home/myusername/mysite.com/scripts/scriptname.php