Magento cron.php/cron.sh not working when executed through cPanel Cron Job

Question

I tried these two commands from SSH. They worked.

/bin/sh /path/to/magento/cron.sh
/usr/bin/php /path/to/magento/cron.php

I put exactly the same commands (either one) on cPanel Cron Job. The commands were executed, but nothing happened. What might be wrong here?

Curl command works, but i'm trying to make cron.php not accessible from outside.

Answer 1

You cron should look like the following path:-

By SSH Server use this,

*/5 * * * * /bin/curl --silent -H "Host: abc.com" http://localhost/cron.php > /dev/null 2>&1

Note:- Here, the first part " */5 * * * * " and " 10 * * * * " are the CRON schedule times.

OR

10 * * * * /usr/bin/php /www/virtual/username/cron.php > /dev/null 2>&1 

The command itself in this example has three parts:

1. "/usr/bin/php". PHP scripts usually are not executable by themselves. Therefore we need to run it through the PHP parser.
2. "/www/virtual/username/cron.php". This is just the path to the script.
3. "> /dev/null 2>&1". This part is handling the output of the script. More on this later.

Answer 2

You cron should look like the following

* * * * * /bin/sh /path/to/your/site.com/html/cron.sh &> /dev/null

Answer 3

Please run cron.php using http://www.example.com/cron.php and check table cron_schedule in database and you could able to see new entries.

Then update command - /bin/sh /path/to/your/site/public_html/cron.sh >/dev/null 2>&1

And check table cron_schedule in database and you could able to see new entries.

Answer 4

Normally. If you run

/usr/bin/php /path/to/magento/cron.php

First: with no parameter. Cron.php will call:

• cron.sh -mdefault 1 > /dev/null 2>&1 &
• cron.sh -malways 1 > /dev/null 2>&1 &

As you tell: /bin/sh: pico: command not found /usr/bin/crontab.cagefs That is the reason it do nothing. I mean because sh shell have error it self.

Second: With parameter: cron.php -mdefault or cron.php -malways. The call immediate executed at php side do not call cron.sh. So it is perfect fine in this case.