Posted by Rich on 12/21/05 21:13

In article <cr4jq11m9sosrfj8ueolirlpma4dnvpm20@4ax.com>, Andy Hassall says...
>
>On 21 Dec 2005 09:06:53 -0800, "lawrence k" <lkrubner@geocities.com> wrote:
>
>>I've got a script called makeRss.php. It works fine if I try to open it
>>with my browser. It makes an RSS feed for every page on my site. You
>>can see it working here:
>>
>>http://www.autostratus.com/index.php?whatPage=makeRss
>>
>>It does just what I want it to do.
>>
>>However, I need for this script to get called every 15 minutes. So I
>>set it up as a cron job. And cron doesn't like calling this thing. Cron
>>is nice enough to send me an email with an error message. Every 15
>>minutes I get this:
>>
>>/home/httpd/vhosts/autostratus.com/httpdocs/makeRss.php: line 1: ?php:
>>No such fil
>
> You seem to be trying to run the .php file directly. This won't work; you
>either need a #! line at the beginning, or you need to run it via PHP.
>
> So either:
>
>#!/path/to/php
>
> as the first line, which will mess things up when it's run via the web, or
>change your cron entry to:
>
>*/15 * * * * /path/to/php /path/to/makeRss.php
>
> ... as I'm assuming it's currently something like:
>
>*/15 * * * * /path/to/makeRss.php
>

Thanks for the information Andy. I had gotten so use to using PHP in web page
specific applications, I've never tried running it as a shell command. Pretty
straight forward and offers some options I can use on future PHP projects.

Rich
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