[RESOLVED] PHP CLI and Cron

Tuesday 29 December 2009 11:22:15 pm

Hi all,

I'm looking for some confirmation. I am checking on getting myself a hosting package and domain again. There is a very good shared host with which I've had good experience with in the past.

Now for the question; I've checked on the requirements page, everything is met except for PHP CLI. Do I really need that? I also checked, the server/php is not running in CGI mode. The package also has Cron available through DirectAdmin.

Would the above be enough to run eZ Publish/Flow and use all of it's features?

Thanks and regards, Robin

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Wednesday 06 January 2010 4:20:01 am

Hi Robin

You need to change your working directory before launching any eZ script :

$ cd /home/****/domains/****/public_html
$ /usr/local/bin/php runcronjobs.php

Wednesday 06 January 2010 1:49:34 pm

Are you sure you don't have PHP CLI ? What does a php -v do ?

You were able to run runcronjobs.php once, so you certainly have PHP CLI... :)

Besides, it is needed for maintenance scripts... So if you don't run them, you won't have workflow/notification/link check/delayed indexing...

Thursday 07 January 2010 12:17:09 am

Hi Rek (my firstname is Jérôme ;))

This is needed because it is required by eZ Publish to launch eZ scripts (mainly php). Indeed, if you look at bootstrap code (like autoload.php), you'll notice include and require statements which are relative to eZ Publish instance root.

That's why you can find this in ezpublish.cron file :

# This must be set to the directory where eZ Publish is installed.
EZPUBLISHROOT=/path/to/the/ez/publish/directory

# Location of the PHP Command Line Interface binary.
PHP=/usr/local/bin/php

# Instruct cron to run the main set of cronjobs
# at 6:35am every day
35 6 * * * cd $EZPUBLISHROOT && $PHP runcronjobs.php -q 2>&1

# Instruct cron to run the "infrequent" set of cronjobs
# at 5:20am every Monday
20 5 * * 1 cd $EZPUBLISHROOT && $PHP runcronjobs.php -q infrequent 2>&1

# Instruct cron to run the "frequent" set of cronjobs
# every 15 minutes
0,15,30,45 * * * * cd $EZPUBLISHROOT && $PHP runcronjobs.php -q frequent 2>&1<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal; " mce_fixed="1"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="monospace, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; " mce_fixed="1">
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Thursday 07 January 2010 1:12:40 am

Hi Robin

I understand. Try to run this via crontab :

cd /home/****/domains/****/public_html && /usr/local/bin/php runcronjobs.php

If it works, then you can add the content of ezpublish.cron to the crontab (first tune $EZPUBLISHROOT and $PHP variables ;))

Thursday 07 January 2010 2:14:37 am

Yep :)

If this doesn't work, you should try another web hosting, such as OVH (french but available in several languages). They have great shared hosting offers (with SSH access) and really cheap dedicated servers ;)

Friday 08 January 2010 1:31:18 am

Always a pleasure :)

Can you please flag the topic as resolved ? Thanks