[Techtalk] A PHP script in a crontab.

[Sue Stones]

Devdas Bhagat wrote:
>>"GET http://www.hostyorkshire.com/scgi-bin/script.php > /dev/null "
>>
>>I am not sure what the GET does!  This doesn't work.
> 
> 
> If you don't have GET, but you do have access to wget, 
> wget http://www.hostyorkshire.com/scgi-bin/script.php -O - > /dev/null

Well the webhoster says that GET is there so I presume it is, its just 
that it doesn't work.  I don't have access to the shell, so I can only 
take their word for it!

> Alternatively, you can call the PHP interpreter directly
> /usr/bin/php /local/path/to/php/script.php > /dev/null

> PHP code is not executed in a web browser. PHP code is executed on the
> web server, in response to a request. The server really doesn't care
> what application made the request.


So what is the difference between this and the cli?  Does the cli needs 
to be installed?

> (Or you could set MAILTO= in the crontab to achieve the same as 
> command > /dev/null2>&1 for all commands in your crontab.

I don't understand this "MAILTO=" bit.

"command > /dev/null" doesn't work.


None of the following work:

script.php
/home/username/public_html/scgi-bin/script.php > /dev/null
http://url/scgi-bin/script.php > /dev/null
GET /home/username/public_html/scgi-bin/script.php > /dev/null
GET http://url/scgi-bin/script.php > /dev/null  ***
GET script.php
php /home/username/public_html/scgi-bin/script.php > /dev/null
php http://url/scgi-bin/script.php
php script.php

*** the one the webhoster told me to use


Anyone got any other ideas?

If it comes to the worst, I will have to rewrite this in pearl.  But I 
really don't want to, because I am tiered and I want a break from this 
project, I am over the deadline, and I don't know perl.

sue