How to run a CodeIgniter file through CRON?

Question

I\'ve tried the following method in the past:

Answer 1

You might also want to check this out: Cron job bootstrapper

This is a simple bootstrapper file that you can use to directly run your CodeIgniter controllers from the commandline. It’s a very easy and elegant solution for using CI controllers for cron jobs. It also supports logging.

Answer 2

Use php-cli instead of php
Ex:

/usr/bin/php-cli  /home/CPANEL_USER/public_html/index.php cronJobs deleteNotifications 

Answer 3

The simplest way to run a cron via CodeIgniter is to make a cron URL available via your app.

Then call it via wget

wget -O - -q -t 1 http://www.example.com/cron/run

Inside the controller you can then use a log to ensure the cron is not run too often i.e. if the Google robots trigger it by mistake.

A second method would be to use lynx

/usr/local/bin/lynx -source http://www.example.com/cron/run

Answer 4

If you want to run cron job by running url, here is a great article

http://www.nbill.co.uk/documentation/setting-up-a-cronjob.html

Answer 5

There is a wiki article about how to run CodeIgniter on the command line, but this is more useful for applications that need to interact with the user through terminal (there's a library for that too).

http://codeigniter.com/wiki/CI_on_the_command_line/

One benefit of doing it this way over using wget is you can protect your code from being run by users or bots with:

if(!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']))
{
     show_error('Shove off hax0r!');
}

Answer 6

You may also like to add --spider to ignore the response. This stops the request from timing out:

wget -O - -q -t 1 --spider http://www.example.com/cron/run