Thursday 10 March 2011

Trying to set up a cron job on Heart internet.

I've been trying to set up a cron job to run a webpage


I've tried setting up a redirect in .htaccess to send the address 'http://www.mysite.co.uk/mycron' to it. And then use 'wget' in the command line.


wget -O - -q -t 1 http://www..mysite.co.uk/mycron


and got the error
'Your script returned the following:
Can't find 'wget'. Check that you have the correct location. '

and i've also tried setting up a php script and forwarding there the header at http://www.mysite.co.uk/cron/rsscontent.php using the command

/home/sites/mysite.co.uk/public_html/cron/rsscontent.php


but this method returns a report that my method to call this page up using 'Location:' is inappropriate.


After mailing Heart support the reply was that in regards to the calling a page direct it cannot be done from the same server as it could cause a loop. However after trying the command

wget -O - -q -t 1 http://www..mysite.co.uk/mycron

from another server ( still on heart ) theres still no success.

I've got it sorted now though - just signed up for an account at www.setcronjob.com where you can use them for free ( you have to redo them every month though or pay! ) and am now free to spend time doing other work ;) phew...

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