I have a cron job like this:
/usr/bin/php /var/www/website/public_html/index.php className methodName
If I run it in terminal it runs, but outputs nothing. If I pass a wrong method name it runs successfully. If I pass wrong class name it outputs a website 404 error.
I also have a routing which adds "en" into url, for example
http://www.website.com/en/home/index
could this be the problem?
my settings of config.php are:
$config['uri_protocol'] = 'AUTO';
$config['index_page'] = '';
the steps to prepare CodeIgniter 2.x for cron-jobs via CLI (command line interface):
1st: create a copy of your root index.php
file and save it in your root as cli.php
2nd: in your cli.php replace <?php
with this code:
#!/usr/local/bin/php
<?php
/* override normal limitations */
set_time_limit(0);
ini_set('memory_limit', '256M');
/* deny direct call from web browser */
if (isset($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'])) die('Permission denied.');
/* constants */
define('CMD', 1);
/* manually set the URI path based on command line arguments... */
unset($argv[0]); /* except the first one */
$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] = $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = '/' . implode('/', $argv) . '/';
3rd: execute your cron job like this:
/usr/bin/php /var/www/website/public_html/cli.php controller method
where /var/www/website/public_html/
is your server's home directory, the location of your index.php
and cli.php
.
notes:
for CI 3.0 you find the necessary information here
database: you'll need to provide your db config settings in your controller method, as the cron job just executes the controller's method. So it doesn't know anything about any database settings!
$config['hostname'] = "localhost";
$config['username'] = "username_admin";
$config['password'] = "password";
//etc..
$this->db = $this->load->database($config, TRUE);
debug: just add a link in your html to run your controller's method like: index.php/controller/method
(remove that once you website is live)
source: very helpful
I think this is the simplest way to get codeigniter working under cron job,
You can use curl in cron jobs to execute or run the codeigniter in cron jobs
Example:
* * * * * /usr/bin/curl https://www.domain.com/controller/function
you can also run cron file from terminal without cli.php
.it is not compulsory file.
i am runnig cron from my server using following syntax:
/usr/bin/php /var/www/project1/index.php controllerName methodName >> /var/log/project1/logFile.txt
It works fine for me....
-O /dev/null-q command line is used to remove the log file in server...
wget -O /dev/null -q http://www.mani.com/poject-name/index.php/tools/sendPushNotification