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Ben
Ben

Reputation: 11188

Cronjob doens't understand the code to execute?

I have set up a cronjob which updates a bunch of contracts in a certain system. When I run the PHP-script in a browser it all works fine, but when the cronjob has to do the trick it fails. I'm kinda stuck on this one since I don't have a lot of experience with cronjobs (heck.. I can only set them up in DirectAdmin).

My PHP scripts has some includes to some classes, these includes work properly (i've tested it by sending mails to myself line by line). When the base-classes are included I have a class which handles autoloading. When I do something like Class::GetInstance() it fails.

My cronjob looks like:

* * * * * /usr/local/bin/php /home/username/domains/domain/public_html/path/to/script.php

What can I do to fix this? Perhaps not run it via php, but by a browser or something? I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, but I don't know this ;)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 189

Answers (3)

Your Common Sense
Your Common Sense

Reputation: 157863

"it fails" is not the problem description one can call a suffucient one.

add this line in your crontab file

MAILTO=your@mail

and run your jobs.
You will get the script output and be able either to correct your code or ask a sensible question.

You may also redirect stdout and stderr to a log file

Upvotes: 0

lorenzo-s
lorenzo-s

Reputation: 17010

Remeber that when PHP is executed on CLI with /usr/local/bin/php you do not have the $_SERVER variable setted properly! I had that problem too because my script had to use $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']. As said, try to run it in a normal shell to see if it works. Alternatively you can change your cronjob command to:

wget -q http://yourdomain.com/path/to/script.php

Usually this works well because it is just identical to fetch that URL from a normal browser.

wget man page here: http://linux.die.net/man/1/wget

Upvotes: 2

favoretti
favoretti

Reputation: 30167

You can't always call the php file directly that expects to be called via HTTP. Judging from path, it's a part of website, which is normally executed by browser, hence I'ld set the cronjob up to not to be directly called by php-cli, but rather by doing a curl request to the website's URL.

Upvotes: 0

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