[quasihellfish]

Has anyone figured out the right Cron command that works on 000webhost in order to run the cron maintenance tasks with Drupal 6? I'm trying to use the cPanel, and none of my efforts seem to do anything... Thanks.

[labrador]

When the system runs your cron jobs, the current directory is /home/axxxxxxx/ rather than /home/axxxxxxx/public_html. The cron.php program will refuse to work because it can't find necessary .inc files. Adding a chdir command to switch to public_html directory in cron.php will solve this problem. Here's an example:

<?php

chdir('./public_html/');

include_once './includes/bootstrap.inc';
drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_FULL);
drupal_cron_run();

[quasihellfish]

OK, I can handle that. But am I okay running the cron.php file directly via a cron job (e.g., just adding "public_html/cron.php" to the cron command)? This seems to be the only command that 000webhost lets me run. The Drupal help documents specifically frown on that behavior, stating that I should be using wget or lynx to access the cron.php from a browser. That was the original intent of my question.

[engineer2]

I have also had issues with drupal and cron on 000webhost. I added the chdir line to the cron.php file and I couldn't get it to work. I had set the cron job to run every 5 minutes but it never worked. For the command i put in public_html/cron.php

Nothing worked. I even tried it without the chdir command in the cron.php file and that didn't fix it either. Before I sumbit a ticket I would like to know if I am doing something wrong. Anyone have any suggestions?

[square]

I have a very same problem here. Tried all the suggestions - none of them seem to be working. There has to be a decision!

[blOOr]

I've tried like all the possibilities on the google.
I've got a free domain, and none of the solution worked for me.

I know how to fukin set a cron job, already did it on other web hosts flawless, but this shit is not working. And no one from the staff gave a valid response.

THIS IS SHIT ! If anyone disabled the Cron Jobs for FreeACcounts fukin tell us so we don;t try to re-invent the internet.

PS: This is outrageous, fukin outrageous.
PPS: Mi-as pwla in snagele vostru de sparti !

Have a fukin awesome day.

Have a nice day

[lobrc]

Originally Posted by blOOr

I've tried like all the possibilities on the google.
I've got a free domain, and none of the solution worked for me.

I know how to fukin set a cron job, already did it on other web hosts flawless, but this shit is not working. And no one from the staff gave a valid response.

THIS IS SHIT ! If anyone disabled the Cron Jobs for FreeACcounts fukin tell us so we don;t try to re-invent the internet.

PS: This is outrageous, fukin outrageous.
PPS: Mi-as pwla in snagele vostru de sparti !

Have a fukin awesome day.

Have a nice day

Calm down dude

[Surreal Scripts]

Originally Posted by blOOr

I've tried like all the possibilities on the google.
I've got a free domain, and none of the solution worked for me.

I know how to fukin set a cron job, already did it on other web hosts flawless, but this shit is not working. And no one from the staff gave a valid response.

THIS IS SHIT ! If anyone disabled the Cron Jobs for FreeACcounts fukin tell us so we don;t try to re-invent the internet.

PS: This is outrageous, fukin outrageous.
PPS: Mi-as pwla in snagele vostru de sparti !

Have a fukin awesome day.

Have a nice day

Wow dude, calm down. As a free user you get what you pay for.

[ShankedS]

So, uh, are there any good sites for learning about cron and how to use it? I've got some ideas for some automated PHP scripts I'd like for my site to run on a time-basis rather than waiting for a user to come and click a page or link.

[Chip Before PCs]

Hey, I'm sure this helps but I've been able to "manually run cron" from within Drupal the one thing I've noted (probably because I don't have much content) is in Search Settings to set "Number of items to index per cron run" to as low a number as possible (i.e. 10). From there if you click on "cron maintenance task" which takes you to Status Report and scroll down to Cron Maintenance Task just below the heading there is a link "Run Cron Manually" when I click on it, it comes back as "Cron Ran Successfully"

What this tells me is that 000webhost has not done anything to actually block the php script from running... but there maybe an issue with running it automatically?!

Hope this helps...

Chip