Cron Jobs
By Meeting Expectations on Saturday, 18 July 2015
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I am having a hard time implementing Cron Jobs for our EasySocial instance. I have generated the Secure Cron Job url. And I have added the Cron to our server. Attached are screen shots of both.

We are using a dedicated server from InMotion hosting. The server setup is:

PHP Built On: Linux server1.oaug.org 2.6.32-504.16.2.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Apr 22 06:48:29 UTC 2015 x86_64
Database Version: 5.5.44-MariaDB
Database Collation: utf8_general_ci
PHP Version: 5.4.40
Web Server: Apache
WebServer to PHP Interface: apache2handler
Joomla! Version: Joomla! 3.4.3 Stable [ Ember ] 2-July-2015 16:00 GMT
Joomla! Platform Version: Joomla Platform 13.1.0 Stable [ Curiosity ] 24-Apr-2013 00:00 GMT
cPanel: 11.50.0.25

I did notice that Akeeba Backup used a definite path for its Cron URLs. Might something similar be needed for EasySocial?

Thanks,

Jim
Thank you Mark!

I hadn't had a chance to update my post. I figured this out late last night. Our host does use curl. The cron command looks like this:

curl --user-agent -O "https://example.com/index.php?option=com_easysocial&cron=true&phrase=yourphrase"; >/dev/null


If anyone finds this helpful, make sure to replace the example.com URL and "yourphrase" with the items specific to your site.

Thanks again for getting back to me so quickly. The support at stackideas is awesome.

Jim
Meeting Expectations
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Saturday, 18 July 2015 18:16
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Hey Jim,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is a weekend for us here. The cronjob that you have created is actually incorrect. You need to either use wget or curl to connect to the URL.

Can you check with your hosting provider if wget or curl is available to the cronjob? After that, pass me the cpanel access to the site and I will help you set this up.
Mark
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Saturday, 18 July 2015 14:30
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Hey Jim,

Ah, thanks for updating and glad that your issues are resolved now
Mark
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Saturday, 18 July 2015 18:21
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