Problem Running Cron in Windows

Wednesday 28 July 2010 5:46:34 pm

I have a local instance of ez on my windows laptop and I'm trying to get runcronjobs.php to run. I've put the following into a batch file:

SET PATH="C:\Users\xxx\UniServer\usr\local\php";
start php.exe runcronjobs.php -d -s issat_site ezfindexcontent

and put the batch file in the same directory as runcronjobs.php.

I'm getting a lot of errors that variables aren't set.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Thursday 29 July 2010 1:37:21 am

Hi Robin,

Thanks for the suggestions. The path to php is correct, and I haven't been able to get it to run from the command line either. When I try:

c:\users\Fraser\Uniserver\usr\local\php>php.exe C:\Users\Fraser\UniServer\www\site\runcronjobs.php -d -s issat_site ezfindexcontent

I get "Fatal error: require_once(): Failed openning required 'access.php' (include_path='.;C:\php5\pear') in C:\Users\Fraser\UniServer\www\site\kernal\classes\ezscript.php on line 72

When I run the batch file with the code I posted above, it seems to run the script but doesn't seem to find the ini files.

I've also tried using the UniServer portable cron feature with the following settings in cron.ini:

[ezfindexcontent]
start = 2009-09-21 2:56:52
period = 600 ; 10 Mins
path = ..\..\www\site\runcronjobs.php -s issat_site ezfindexcontent
ref =
From the log it seems to at least try to execute the path, but the index is still not generated.

Thanks for any further suggestions!

Thursday 29 July 2010 3:52:00 am

Thanks for the suggestion! Unfortunately when I tried this I got lot of errors:

eZINI Undefined variable: 'DebugAccess', 'ExtensionDirectory', 'ActiveAccessExtensions' and others all in site.ini

PHP: E_Warning array values don't seem to be passed to ezextension.php

eZDB:: instance Database implementation not supported: ezmysql

Thursday 29 July 2010 5:35:03 am

Yes my installation does include eZ Components (at least that's the version I downloaded so I presume it's installed also). I'm not sure where to check if PHP is running in CLI or CGI, but by poking around a little it looks like it's running in CGI.

Thanks for the help!

Thursday 29 July 2010 12:01:51 pm

Hi Fraser,

While setting up a scheduled task on my Windows box, which has Wampserver as LAMP stack, I also got the error you have. The runcronjobs.php needs to be called from the root, this means the commandbox/script needs to call it from that directory your eZ install is in. My script:

cd..
cd..
cd wamp\www\ez440en
php runcronjobs.php
pause

What I saw when I started the task, is that the command prompt started at c:\windows\system32. That's incorrect.

So, hence the 2 commands "cd..", this brings the prompt back to c:.

Then make sure the prompt is set to your eZ root, for me that was c:\wamp\www\ez440en

Then the command "php runcronjobs.php"

I've set the "pause" command so I can see when the cronjob is done, what the results are.

Maybe you can try the above, before following my previous advice about trying php on CLI. I think setting the prompt to the correct directory is also Gaentano was referring to.

Hope this is going to work for you, Robin

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Saturday 31 July 2010 10:39:26 pm

Hi Fraser,

The error you have above need to be solved first, you can then use the .bat example I used to get a cronjob scheduled. What I have in my Path environmental variable is as follow:

;C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.2.6;C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.2.6\ext

If that path is correct for you (you'll need to set your own paths of course), you should be able to run php from any folder. See if you can get that to work first.

Regards Robin

Board member, eZ Publish Community Project Board - Member of the share.ez.no team - Key values: Openness and Innovation.

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Monday 02 August 2010 12:55:46 am

Hi Fraser,

Now that php can be started from the eZ root, can you post the command you use to call the runcronjobs.php? Can you also post the full error log?

Thanks Robin

Board member, eZ Publish Community Project Board - Member of the share.ez.no team - Key values: Openness and Innovation.

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