RSS feed test imports work, wget cron import not importing
By Rik Brown on Friday, 02 December 2016
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I have a variety of news RSS feeds setup on our site. They import fine with the "test import" button in EasyBlog. But I've not been able to successfully automate the import via our server cron.

We use wget for several other crons on our site so wget works. Our cron even emails to me the condition of the cron such as:

--2016-12-01 16:15:02-- http://www.[domain].com/en/index.php?option=com_easyblog&task=cron
Resolving http://www.[domain].com... (ipaddress-here) Connecting to http://www.[domain].com|(ipaddress-here|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 728 [text/x-json]
Saving to: “/dev/null”

0K 100% 95.3M=0s

2016-12-01 16:15:02 (95.3 MB/s) - “/dev/null” saved [728/728]

However, nothing is being imported.

Any ideas?

Thanks. -- Rik
hey Rik,

Regarding import feed automatically import, you have to use this following cronfeed URL :

Try add 1 more cronjob command from your cron service, copy the whole cronjob command and update this task=cron to task=cronfeed

If still can't make it work, can you update your Joomla backend and Cpanel access at http://stackideas.com/dashboard/site so we can help you check on this?
Arlex Wong
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Friday, 02 December 2016 10:02
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After the change to "cronfeed" as indicated above, the RSS feeds are being imported. However, there is also a cron setup instruction in the documentation (https://stackideas.com/docs/easyblog/administrators/cronjobs/cronjobs-ssh) advising the following SSH cron which we previously tried:

*/5 * * * * /bin/wget -O /dev/null "http://stackideas.com/index.php?option=com_easyblog&task=cron";

Are we supposed to have 2 crons working (one for "cronfeed" and a separate plain "cron" for other maintenance issues)?

Please clarify.

Thanks. -- Rik
Rik Brown
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Friday, 09 December 2016 04:26
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Hey there,

Thanks for pointing to correct documentation, I will pass to our docs administrator to correct this.

Yes, you have to run 2 cron command on your cronjob service.
Arlex Wong
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Friday, 09 December 2016 11:48
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