rename() runs fine from the command line, but when run from cron job, the rename() does not. Since the connect.php file works I assume the cron job is in the right directory, but can't figure out why rename() doesn't work. I tried absolute paths and they didn't work:
<?php
include 'connect.php';
$oldlocation='xxx/xxx/'.$oldfilename;
$newlocation='yyyy/xxx/'.$newfilename;
$move=rename("$oldlocation","$newlocation");
The cron job: * * * * * /usr/bin/php /usr/xxx/xxx/xxx/xxx.php -q -f
I have no root access to the server. Should this be run through a SHELL script?
The current path while a cron execution is the home directory of the user which is running the cron process. See also this post.
Just change the relative path to an absolute and the issue is fixed.
The solution, not directly a directory issue (well sort of):
$oldlocation='xxx/xxx/'.$oldfilename;
has to be changed to:
$oldlocation='/xxx/xxx/'.$oldfilename;
I guess I was missing the first /
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I'm running a PHP script via Linux Crontab. It runs correctly (verified using ps -ef). This script checks all the files in a specified directory and if the files don't meet certain requirements they will be deleted.
This sript works perfectly executed through Linux console (as root) but when It's executed by Crontab it won't work...
Suggests? Thanks!
PD:
- Permissions ->
- PHP Script (755)
- Target folder (777)
- Files to be removed (644)
Crontab Line:
*/1 * * * * php /var/www/server/close_con_watch.php >> /var/www/server/phpcronlog.txt
make sure you add the user/group to the Cron command, like
10 * * * * root /path/file.php
And make sure your file starts with
#!/usr/bin/php
It finally worked. The conflict was in the PHP Script.
My script checks files in a certain directory, the path to that directory was declared in a relative way. I declared the path in an aboslute way and It worked but I still don't get it... The PHP Script is in a fixed path, so all the paths declared in the lines of code should work as relative regardless where It's executed from... Am I wrong? Thanks everyone.
Why I'm confused:
The relative path declared before didn't throw a path warning/exception.
It worked perfectly when I executed the Script from console.
I have a PHP script that works fine when run from the browser, but when run as a cron job (which was set up via cPanel), it doesn't. The server is running Linux.
I've narrowed it down to an include statement:
$include_path = dirname(__FILE__) . "/";
$wpconfig = $include_path . 'blog/wp-config.php';
include($wpconfig);
I've also tried using realpath(dirname(FILE)) instead of just dirname(FILE), and just trying to include "blog/wp-config.php", but it makes no difference.
The PHP script resides in this folder:
/home2/USERNAME/public_html/DOMAIN/tools/
The file I need to include is in this folder, which is one level below the one where the PHP script resides:
/home2/USERNAME/public_html/DOMAIN/tools/blog/wp-config.php
I thought using an absolute path should work in a cron job, but apparently not.
I'm clearly doing something wrong (or stupid), so could someone please put me out of my misery and point me in the right direction.
Thanks!
I had several problems running cron scripts from Cpanel with absolute paths (when having includes) and ended up changing to executing them as URL's, now everything is working fine:
My command
wget -O /dev/null http://www.example.com/somescript > /dev/null 2>&1
I've a peculiar situation I cannot get to the bottom of it.
I've cron.php that runs every 15 minutes. It must execute following code:
exec("php gmail-smtp.php >> basic-email-template/debug-mailer.log &");
All the other parts of the cron work fine, like require "config.php"; which makes me think relative urls work fine inside cron. But relative url inside exec() could be a problem, unfortunately I don't see anything in the logs, and I don't see anything inside my own debug-mailer.log
Any thoughts?
I tried it both on my local dev mac, and remote ubuntu server. Result is same, ergo no result.
Cron is run like this:
*/5 * * * * php /Library/WebServer/Documents/favwords/lib/cron.php
Seems like current working directory is not valid. You can check it out by using getcwd() function inside your cron.php script. If it runs at all. After verifing it, use chdir() function to change current working directory to valid one - the one where gmail-smtp.php is. Or simply use full paths, not relative ones.
I have created a simple PHP script that is executed by a CRON daemon on my remote webserver. Every few minutes, the script looks up some JSON data on another website, and stores the results in a file in the same folder as itself.
However, it seems that the file that is used when navigating to the page in the browser, a different file is used than when the cron is executed.
In other words: When going here:
www.example.com/cronscripts/my_script.php the file /home/user_xxx/domains/example.com/public_html/cronscripts/datafile.json is used.
However, when calling the script using the following cron statement:
/usr/local/bin/php /home/user_xxx/domains/example.com/public_html/cronscripts/my_script.php
a file on a different location is used. Is this file in the /usr/local/bin/php folder in the Linux server? If so, I can't access it by hand because I can only access the /home/user_xxx/ folder.
Could someone tell me where the file ends up when using Cronjobs?
This seems to be a path mismatch for the location, you are most probably using a relative path somewhere for the json file.
I think you should schedule your cronjob as following and see if that works
* * * * * cd /home/user_xxx/domains/example.com/public_html/cronscripts && /usr/local/bin/php my_script.php
You should use the absolute path to your script on the server i.e. /var/www/script.php
Try to use instead
*/1 * * * * php /home/user_xxx/domains/example.com/public_html/cronscripts/my_script.php
Using chdir() to ensure you are starting in the proper directory may also help.
Just a side note: please always use #!/bin/env php
(see http://seancoates.com/blogs/use-env for more info)
I have a php file that I can run from the browser and it works perfect. I tried to set up a cron job to run the php file, but am obviously missing something.
Since this php file was originally ran from the browser, it is uploaded to the /var/www folder. I made a copy of it in a new folder called /var/cron. I made this folder just to test. I will probably put it in another folder, but for now it is in this folder.
Here is what I did. After copying the php file to the /var/cron folder, I ran the crontab -e command to edit the crontab file. My cron job looks like this:
00,30,59 * * * * /var/cron/download.php
I have tried changing permissions by using chmod 755 download.php
that didn't do anything.
I have tried /usr/bin/wget -q /var/cron/download.php
this didn't do anything either.
What should I do?
If you add
#!/usr/bin/php
as the first line of the php file, you can run it from the command line (as long as it has appropriate permissions. You can test run by going to the directory and typing
./download.php
I'm a little surprised amccausl's approach didn't work for you.
Have you tried changing your crontab so it looks like this:
00,30,59 * * * * /usr/bin/php /var/cron/download.php
This assumes /usr/bin/php is where php lives on your server.
(You may also need to install a "cli" package for PHP, eg. Ubuntu/Debian's php5-cli.)
Try with full URL like :
wget -O - -q "http://www.domain.com/cron.php"