Need some Help with cron jobs

[tstmesi]

i'm pretty new to cron jobs, so it might be just the fact that this may not be allowed. but what i'm trying to do is have a PHP script to update user rankings in a mysql DB, every 15minutes, I'm using Cpannel, and the information on x10 wiki about cron jobs but those seem to be all command line or i might be misunderstanding it. I'm also trying to keep these out of my public_html folder.

my current cron job command looks like this



i have also tried these commands

/usr/local/bin/php -f /home/tstmesi/jobs/cron_rankings.php
/usr/local/bin/php -q /home/tstmesi/jobs/cron_rankings.php

/usr/local/bin/php $HOME/tstmesi/jobs/cron_rankings.php
/usr/local/bin/php -f $HOME/tstmesi/jobs/cron_rankings.php
/usr/local/bin/php -q $HOME/tstmesi/jobs/cron_rankings.php

 

[lylex10h]

For the path try:
/usr/bin/php
or
php

https://x10hosting.com/wiki/Cron_job#Running
This means for a PHP script to be directly executable, it must begin:

#!/usr/local/bin/php
<?php
/* rest of script follows */

Shebangs,shebangs

 

[tstmesi]

thanks for the reply, gona give it a go and see what it comes up with, i was unaware i had to put #!/usr/local/bin/php, in my php file thank you for this information also

 

[tstmesi]

I did get them working, but i had to move the files back to public_html, but i understand there is a way to set permission for the file itself to only be accessed by the server,
the line i used

/usr/local/bin/php /home/tstmesi/public_html/cron_rankings.php

on another note i have a php file that also updates how much gold players get every 30min, it is also working but i did not add

#!/usr/local/bin/php

at the beginning of the file should i be worried about this?

 

[pus]

If you don’t know how to setup cronjob, a third party webcron like easycron may be a good option for you.