OVH and cron jobs

Tuesday 09 February 2010 12:25:44 am

Some feedback while I am still waiting for the customer support from OVH to reply. To get my crons working I had to use 2 workarounds.

#1; since the hosting account runs on CGI I had to edit the script /kernel/classes/ezscript.php. At line 179 I commented out:

exit( 1 );

#2; the form to set the script in the task scheduler does not allow for spaces so using "/runcronjobs.php frequent" did not work. Same for infrequent.

What I did here was copy runcronjobs.php twice and rename to runcronjobsfrequent.php and runcronjobsinfreqent.php and calling those scripts from the task scheduler.

In both files I added the following above line 305:

/* set cron part*/
$cronPart = 'frequent';

for the frequent crons and

/* set cron part*/
$cronPart = 'infrequent';

for the infrequent crons.

Hope to hear more from OVH soon so I can skip the workarounds but wanted to share them anyway in case someone else with hosting at OVH runs into the same problems.

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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Tuesday 25 May 2010 2:31:25 am

Hello Robin and Romeo,

If you wish to execute crons with ovh, then you can set them up in your manager:
http://help.ovh.co.uk/HostingCron

Although, you will have more information on the french version, which you can then translate with google translate:
http://guides.ovh.com/MutualiseCron

As for ezflow, the cronpart, you need to execute to update the data of dynamic blocks is this called "ezflow" and is defined in the file /extension/settings/cronjobs.ini.append.php:

You can run it at the root of your folder in the following way:

>>> php runcronjobs.php ezflow

I set it up my crontab in the following way:

------------------------
# This must be set to the directory where eZ Publish is installed.
EZPUBLISHROOT=/var/www/bayard/www
# Location of the PHP Command Line Interface binary.
PHP=/usr/bin/php

# Every five minutes
*/5 * * * * su - www-data -c "cd $EZPUBLISHROOT && $PHP runcronjobs.php ezflow" > /tmp/ezflow.cron.log 2>&1
-------------------------

You also have nice information on setting up the crontabs on this page:
http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_manual/4_x/features/cronjobs/running_cronjobs

Good luck,

Wednesday 26 May 2010 7:42:31 am

Hello Romeo,

>> I configured manual blocks in ezflow front page and need to rotate the overflow items.
>> But overflow is activated .But only overflow is seen when I send any itme to publish.Overflow doesn't come by itself.

Unfortunatly only dynamic blocks will be updated automaticaly with the cronjob.

Here is an exemple on how to create a dynamic block:
http://share.ez.no/forums/extensions/ez-flow/example-how-to-do-a-dynamic-block.useful-for-you

Static and manual blocks will normaly only be updated when the page is edited.
Unless, you deactivate the cache on this block.

I tend to modify the pagelayout of the site, so that the columns of the site are not included in the full_view of the item, since this means that you need to empty the content cache of too many items. I prefer to fetch the content of the column and use a cache-block to control the rythme at which you empty this cache.

If you will need more indepth understanding of the cache-blocks I recommend you read this information:
http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_manual/4_x/reference/template_functions/miscellaneous/cache_block

Thursday 27 May 2010 3:43:55 am

Sorry for my spelling . so I need to change all manual blocks to dynamic blocks?