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Hi there,

I’m having trouble setting up a cron job on an ee template that calls the data for xmlgrab.
I’d like the cron job to refresh the page every minute.

Example of command is below.

Min   H   DM   M   DW   Command
*  *  *  *  *  /usr/bin/lynx -dump “http://mydomain.co.uk/myTemplates/myScript/”

The problem that i’m having is that the cron job is pointing to the virtualised directory within expression engine.

There isn’t an actual directory on my server called ‘myTemplates’, and as such the cron job cannot find the script with the template ‘myScript’ to run it.

The script within the template ‘myScript’ has to be within EE as it contains EE code.

I’m guessing thia is a pretty common situation and would appreciate some pointers.

Cheers
Peter

Hi Peter,

Thanks for your post.

If you can access the webpage http://mydomain.co.uk/myTemplates/myScript/ ok through a web browser, then cron should work ok - the directory shouldn’t have to exist (unless I’m misunderstanding the problem).

Andrew

Hi Andrew

Thanks for your reply.

My bad.

It’ll only work when the system is turned on - I assumed that it will run the cron when the system is turned off.

Great plugin btw.

Cheers
P