cron.php error

OMSA · August 28th, 2006, 09:43 PM

When I look at my server error log, I get a TON of these errors listed.

File does not exist: /home/witerd/public_html/photopost/cron.php

Is there such a thing as the cron.php in the photopost folder and what causes this error?

Thanks!

-Dave

Chuck S · August 29th, 2006, 08:10 AM

There is no such thing in photopost as a cron.php file. You most likely have a relative links somewhere in your footer to a file by that name

OMSA · August 29th, 2006, 11:44 AM

I didn't think there was a cron.php file in photopost.

I have just the standard vbull footer, no mods. The only modified footer I have is on the portal on the main page. I have a webring link there.

What should I be looking for that would try and access cron.php?

I did a search for cron in the footer and came up blank.

Sybaris · August 29th, 2006, 12:14 PM

looks like you have a cron job set up in vbulletin and its looking in the wrong place, or you have some code to run a cron when someone loads a page (or part of a page) that updates stats or something and its still in the header or footer when you go to photopost index and the url (path) is reletive as chuck said.

I would say the second is more likely.

tjanders · September 2nd, 2006, 11:47 AM

I'm faced with the same issue in my photopost/showgallery.php file I run photopost within vbulletin and vbulletin generates the call at the bottom of the page when it's in vbulletin territory, not photopost. There is also a warning in the vbulletin coding not to remove it. I have no idea how to work around this so I'm just putting up with the 404 errors. I get about 500 404s per day. Here's what vbulletin generates:

<img src="http://www.timstropicals.com/photopost/cron.php?

When I run photopost classifieds, vbulletin changes the entry to

<img src="http://www.timstropicals.com/classifieds/cron.php?

I've searched the vBulletin form and the posted opinion of the vBulletin Team on this issue is "Sorry, but this does not happen in the default vBulletin files, and its from a third party script, please seek their support."

Chuck S · September 2nd, 2006, 04:00 PM

try replacing in header-inc.php your footervars to these

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

tjanders · September 13th, 2006, 01:00 AM

Sorry, but I've tried replacing the above code and it still comes out with a file path of photopost/cron.php? instead of vbulletin/cron.php? when I run pages.

jmar · September 13th, 2006, 05:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tjanders

Sorry, but I've tried replacing the above code and it still comes out with a file path of photopost/cron.php? instead of vbulletin/cron.php? when I run pages.

same here.

Chuck S · September 13th, 2006, 07:15 AM

Nothing more I can suggest other than finding out where in vbulletin your $cronimage variable is defined and make the link a full url to the file.

tjanders · September 14th, 2006, 09:51 PM

The cron.php call is made at the bottom of every page in vbulletin. It is a relative path in their software. When you run photopost or classifieds within vbulletin, you will get a path error on every page that is accessed. That's because your software can't convert the file path properly. It is based on the main directory in your software when it should convert to the main directory in the vbulletin installation. Given that your software won't know the name of that directory, I guess we will have to live with all the 404 errors. No way around it.

Zachariah · September 15th, 2006, 06:39 AM

Hey Chuck S,

Before the footer is called.

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

In many other hacks / addons its before.

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

rastacat · September 27th, 2006, 11:36 PM

Any updates on this? I have a reasonable number of photopost products and have thousands, upon thousands of these cron.php request errors in my logs.

I thought perhaps my programs being older was the issue so I never squawked before.

OK, I installed a fresh new site with 3.61 Vbulletin today and the latest classifieds and get the errors every time.

I can't even cook up a work-around for this by creating a fake cron.php file due to the way it's being called.

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

Any help would be most welcome. I'd be thrilled just to kill the entire footer inclusion to get rid of these errors. It's a pretty big problem for me.

please?
Al

ps, yes, I tried the code listed in the posts above as a possible fix.

Al3xy · September 28th, 2006, 02:52 AM

I'd suggest separating vBulletin and PhotoPost OR remove PhotoPost for a while, and monitoring your site's traffic.

Once you know for certain that all these cron jobs still appear in your log when you've removed PhotoPost, then you know who the culprit is.

rastacat · September 28th, 2006, 01:06 PM

It's clearly showing on the classifieds page, that's where the code posted above was taken from. It's not actually a cron job in the server sense, it's a file used in VB and the PP programs are pulling it in via the footer.

I can stop the errors by removing the PP products.

Chuck S · September 28th, 2006, 01:28 PM

Try Zach's post in header-inc.php

cron.php error

rastacat · September 28th, 2006, 02:45 PM

Thanks Chuck. I misunderstood Zach's post as I thought it was directed specifically to you for comments, and not as a code suggestion.

It fixed it on the new classified install.

Chuck S · September 28th, 2006, 03:13 PM

Yep already added it to my new classifieds beta I am testing

tjanders · October 11th, 2006, 11:14 PM

This fixes photopost and classifieds both for me. Thanks very much.

Chuck S · October 12th, 2006, 08:14 AM

There is already code for this added within our latest downloaded code

to address this