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#16702 Filescanner doesnt work as CRON job

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Latest post by nicholas on Monday, 08 July 2013 07:39 CDT

Monday, 08 July 2013 05:58 CDT

12ernie
Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? yes
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Joomla! version: 2.5.11
PHP version: 5.4.16
MySQL version: 5.1
Host: provider: 1and1
Admin Tools version: professional 2.5.6

Description of my issue:
Filescanner works fine online, but I dont get it to work via cron resp. commandline (Akeeba Backup works fine in the same installation also in cron/commandline-mode!!).

It just comes up that way -finished within a second:
(uiserver):xxx:~ > /usr/bin/php6 /homepages/xx/xxxxx/htdocs/xxx/cli/admintools-filescanner.php
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.16
Content-type: text/html

(uiserver):xxx:~ >

I installed the idententical file "admintools-filescanner.php" on another server in another -but similar- environment, it works!

Monday, 08 July 2013 07:39 CDT

nicholas
The PHP binary you are using in your command line (/usr/bin/php6) is PHP CGI, not PHP CLI. CGI = Common Gateway Interface, used to serve web pages. CLI = Command Line Interface, used to run command line scripts (like the CRON scripts). Normally Joomla!'s JApplicationCli, the core API used in all of our CRON jobs, requires PHP CLI and won't work on PHP CGI. For Akeeba Backup's CRON script (and only for those two scripts!) I have gone into great lengths adding PHP CGI support. The downside is that it is a very complicated process and the code needs to be reviewed with each new version of Joomla!. It is also possible that at some point it will break and I'll have to remove it.

So, the real solution is for you to ask your host to give you the PHP CLI path and use it in your CRON job's command line.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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