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#16974 Command-Line CRON jobs - 500 Internal Server Error

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Latest post by ewanvrooyen on Monday, 05 August 2013 15:01 CDT

ewanvrooyen
Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Have I searched the tickets before posting? Yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Joomla! version: 2.5.11
PHP version: 5.3.26
MySQL version: 5.5.32
Host: heart internet
Akeeba Backup version: Akeeba Backup Professional 3.7.10

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Description of my issue: Hi. I tried to setup the "Command-Line CRON jobs" and the altenative one, but get the same error. My host confirmed that I do have the correct syntax, but I get the following error:
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Your script returned the following:
Status: 500 Internal Server Error
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.17
Content-type: text/html
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Syntax I used is:
/usr/bin/php5 /home/sites/sitename/public_html/cli/akeeba-backup.php
and
/usr/bin/php5 /home/sites/sitename/public_html/cli/akeeba-altbackup.php

Can you please assist?

Regards

Ewan

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
PHP 5.2 is not supported. Look at the message you pasted. It tells you that the CRON job is running through PHP 5.2. You will need PHP 5.3 or later. Please ask your host for the correct path to PHP 5.3 or later and use it in your CRON job.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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ewanvrooyen
Thank you Nicholas. I requested the info from the hosts.

Regards

Ewan

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