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timrybak
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I switched web hosting companies, and now I am using a company that support cron jobs. So, I set up a job to run /home/timrybak/public_html/wimpq-cronpost.php (which is the correct path according to their tech support, and it reflects what I see in the Virtual File Browser tool). When the job runs, this is the output I get:

/home/timrybak/public_html/wimpq-cronpost.php: line 1: ?php: No such file or directory
/home/timrybak/public_html/wimpq-cronpost.php: line 3: //photoq: No such file or
directory
/home/timrybak/public_html/wimpq-cronpost.php: line 4: syntax error near unexpected
token `'WP_ADMIN','
/home/timrybak/public_html/wimpq-cronpost.php: line 4: `define('WP_ADMIN', true);'

From this, I gather it is finding the php file, but it doesn't like the script. Am I doing something wrong? Any help is appreciated!

Tim

Posted 2 years ago #
whoismanu
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is this fulfilled?

If you plan to use the automatic posting capability, move the file "photoq-photoblog-plugin/wimpq-cronpost.php" to the same directory as your wp-config.php file.

i.e. is public_html where your wp-config.php file is?

Posted 2 years ago #
timrybak
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Yes, wp-config and wimpq-cronpost.php are both in the public_html folder.

Posted 2 years ago #
whoismanu
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the first line suggests that you try to execute the cronjob file as something other than a php file. my first guess is that you have no command at all or a wrong command in front of the filename to be executed in your crontab. you need to tell cron with what command (program) it should execute the file you give as an argument.

usually either lynx or wget does the trick. try something like this

lynx -source http://example.com/wimpq-cronpost.php > /dev/null 2>&1

or depending on the path to the lynx program this

/usr/bin/lynx -source http://example.com/wimpq-cronpost.php > /dev/null 2>&1

if this doesn't work because e.g. lynx is not installed on your server, you can try with a similar command for wget. i found this here to be a great explanation and you will also find sample wget commands to use there: http://drupal.org/cron

Posted 2 years ago #
timrybak
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Thank you so much for the help. My hosting company's first line of support gave me the path that I referenced in the original post. Turns out they didn't exactly know what they were talking about. I opened a ticket yesterday, and this morning I got an email from a system admin telling me that the path is actually:

/usr/local/bin/php /home/timrybak/public_html/wimpq-cronpost.php

I updated the Cron job, and voila, it works like a charm!

Thanks again for the time you gave me on this!
Tim

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