AWS Elastic Beanstalk: Running Cron.d script, missing Environment Variables

Question

I\'m trying to run a PHP script that is triggered by a cron script (in cron.d). The script is triggered properly but it is missing the Elastic Beanstalk \"Environment Variab

Answer 1

While searching for solutions to the same problem I ran into this blog post: http://sebgoo.blogspot.nl/2013/10/elastic-beanstalk-cron-command-and-rds.html. To summarize, you can load the Elastic Beanstalk environment variables using the opt/elasticbeanstalk/support/envvars file:

0 3 * * * . /opt/elasticbeanstalk/support/envvars; some_command

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

I just found this, using

grep -r "export MY_VAR" /

EDIT: Amazon seems to move the file location from time to time. Current location is:

/opt/elasticbeanstalk/support/envvars

So I think I'll just include (source [file path]) that in my script before calling my php script. Still seems like a funky way to do things. I'm still in for better solutions.

I was running PHP via bash script triggered by cron. So to setup the environment, I would do something like this:

#!/bin/bash 
source /opt/elasticbeanstalk/support/envvars
php -f my-script.php

See @userid53's answer below for PHP solution.

Answer 3

In case you need something similar for CodeIgniter:

* * * * * root . /opt/elasticbeanstalk/support/envvars && /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/index.php controller method

Example:

* * * * * root . /opt/elasticbeanstalk/support/envvars && /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/index.php tasks pushNotification

A more descriptive alternative:

* * * * * root source /opt/elasticbeanstalk/support/envvars && /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/index.php tasks pushNotification