External Cron Setting

Discussion in 'Installation' started by maromichi, Aug 30, 2003.

  1. maromichi

    maromichi Guest

    I was trying to set up the "Use External Cron" function in "Advanced" menu so that I can use the Authorize-AIM plugin. Unfortunetely my webhosting company (VERIO) doesn't support the crontab function itself. However VERIO offers different way to do it. Please see the following link for the detail.

    http://support.hosting.verio.com/verioknow...ic/ves30133.htm

    I would like to know if it is possible to set up the "External Cron" with this VERIO's webhosting. And if it is possible, how can I write the "cron.sh" script? Any idea?
  2. alex-adm

    alex-adm Guest

    Yes, you can write cron.sh file.

    It will look like:

    Code:
    #!/bin/sh
    /usr/bin/wget -O /dev/null http://WWW.YOURSITE.COM/amember/cron.php?pass=YOUR_CRON_PASSWORD
    
  3. maromichi

    maromichi Guest

    Thank you, Alex!

    One more thing I would like to ask you.

    How can I confirm if I could set up the cron job correctly without telnet access?
  4. maromichi

    maromichi Guest

    Alex,

    I could confirm the wget's transaction in an access log. You don't need to answer my stupid question.

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