Cron Job: sendnotice.php - Page 3

Chuck S · January 7th, 2006, 05:44 PM

Okay you may need to contact the host about this as I can not speak on how they handle there cron tasks. However have you tried this where they ask for path replace with your url

/usr/bin/wget --spider http://www.viperalley.com/classifieds/sendnotice.php

RCHobbies · July 10th, 2006, 09:16 AM

Chuck I get an error bad day of the month? why would you not use 10 * * * * * /usr/bin/wget --spider etc etc? won't that tell it to run every 10?
I'm not an expert just asking as I got an error trying to save the entry

Chuck S · July 10th, 2006, 09:44 AM

*/10 * * * * /usr/bin/wget --spider http://www.viperalley.com/classifieds/sendnotice.php

that would be every 10 minutes

RCHobbies · July 13th, 2006, 01:25 AM

I've got it all set up and it worked.
so I threw a test ad up as an auction. It expired as it should but
i got home tonight and found that I've gotten like 20 emails from the system?
why is it doing this?

Arnie · July 30th, 2006, 07:44 AM

Daft question but why is this not mentioned in the PPC install script?

Chuck S · July 30th, 2006, 10:10 AM

You mean in the install instructions here

http://www.photopost.com/class/installphp.html

I will see if Michael can updates them as it would be a good idea

happy mutant · October 13th, 2006, 03:13 PM

Ok, not to beat a dead horse but, after finding the right command for my host,

( /usr/bin/php -q /home/mrpainti/rccna/public_html/pp-classifieds/sendnotice.php)

I get, No input file specified. in the body.

Is this normal??

Thanks again

It must not be, as sold items are STILL showing up on my random ads sidebar on my VBadvanced page?

Chuck S · October 13th, 2006, 07:33 PM

If its no input file your path is wrong or the cron command is incorrect. It is not finding your file

sparky · February 20th, 2007, 09:52 PM

Just a note, I'm glad I found these last two posts.

My host does not allow me to use wget.

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

does work for me though.

1996 328ti · April 5th, 2007, 08:29 PM

Does this mean that the script ran?

--03:00:03-- http://xx.xx.xx/sendnotice.php
=> `sendnotice.php'
Resolving xx.xx.xx... xx.xx.xx.xx
Connecting to xx.xx.xx|xx.xx.xx.xx|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
200 OK

Chuck S · April 5th, 2007, 09:45 PM

sounds like it has yes

1996 328ti · April 8th, 2007, 08:29 AM

I thought sendnotice was being sent because I was getting an email that said OK from the cronjob. That wasn't the case and users confirmed that they did not get any notice.

My host recommended this
/usr/bin/php -q /home/username/public_html/sendnotice.php

Now I get an email with all of the users' names warning them that their ad is going to expire. Including a test ad that I have about to expire.

I hope this helps someone.

Chuck S · April 8th, 2007, 10:40 AM

all depends on your specific hosts requirements

1996 328ti · April 8th, 2007, 05:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck S

all depends on your specific hosts requirements

EXACTLY.
That is why I posted what worked for me.

sparky · April 17th, 2007, 08:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 1996 328ti

I thought sendnotice was being sent because I was getting an email that said OK from the cronjob. That wasn't the case and users confirmed that they did not get any notice.

My host recommended this
/usr/bin/php -q /home/username/public_html/sendnotice.php

Hmm, looks vaguely familiar.

doc1975 · January 2nd, 2008, 02:12 PM

Okay, I've read through the posts within this thread, but can not figure out where i would insert the codes. Below is a screenshot of the cron screen from within my site, hosting by dotster.com, and using plesk 8.2. Just exactly what code do i enter, and where? I'm a total noob, so please speak in noob terms... thank you in advance!

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

Chuck S · January 2nd, 2008, 02:48 PM

You might need to ask your host how to set that to run every 10 minutes etc

*/10 * * * * /usr/bin/wget --spider http://www.viperalley.com/classifieds/sendnotice.php

Thats the example cron Michael posts so that tells me you place * everywhere except hour which you would place /10 maybe and then on the command line you enter

/usr/bin/wget --spider http://www.yoursite.com/classifieds/sendnotice.php

Your host would know more on their regulations concerning crons through. Our examples are all for the command line crons the graphical ones like yours they work the same you just need to place the right info from that command line down the line on the right lines.

doc1975 · January 2nd, 2008, 04:08 PM

ok...

is there a space between "...wget" and "--spider"?
also is there a space between "--spider" and "http://www.mysite........"?

Chuck S · January 2nd, 2008, 04:47 PM

yes there is and you can also try just placing something like this on that line note this one would be server path. The wget is the one that allows you to do a url versus the normal server path. Replace below with your true server path etc

/usr/bin/php -q /var/www/html/pp-classifieds/sendnotice.php

doc1975 · January 3rd, 2008, 08:18 AM

I went ahead and created the cron job with the original command and it appears to have worked for the auction test ad, as its removed the pic and the ad associated with it, but the other normal ads are still there (text descriptions) although the pictures have now been removed... any suggestions?

http://www.reptilejunction.com/classifieds