Cron run ?!? I can't get it to crawl!

27 Oct Posted by webthingee in code, drupal
Cron is one of the most important aspects of having a drupal site. And it can be a pain to figure out, configure, and be sure it's running. I have tried several different processes, and here is the one I like right now...
I am on a vps, but should work for shared as well.

I am running x3 cPanel

I am able to run cron successfully with:

php /home/INSERT+DIR+NAME+HERE/public_html/cron.php


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Comments

Jimmy Berry (not verified)Tue, 10/27/2009 - 11:24

Use CURL

Using CURL instead of cron ensures that it is run on a particular "site" from the sites folder. So if you have subdomains that is somewhat necessary, and in general seems like a good practice since it has all the Apache environment variables.

cron http://example.com/cron.php
cron http://sub1.example.com/cron.php

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Link deep (not verified)Fri, 04/16/2010 - 23:34

Great post

if you have subdomains that is somewhat necessary, and in general seems like a good practice since it has all the Apache environment variables.
AnonymousThu, 07/29/2010 - 07:28

Thanks

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