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kenlyle
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Acajoom Plus: Setting up CRON on cPanel - 2006/12/16 23:21 My hosting company, HostGator (excellent!) told me this regarding setting my crons in cPanel:

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"HostGator Support" <support@hostgator.com>

Ken,

I've added your user to the get-users group, so you can run the
necessary binaries to do this. For your cron command, use the following:

/usr/bin/GET
http://blah.tld/joompath/index.php?option=com_acajoom&act=cron

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Now, instead of getting error messages in my mail, I am getting the HTML of that page, which I think is a step in the right direction.

K

Post edited by: chris, at: 2006/12/18 13:44

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kenlyle
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Re:Setting up CRON on cPanel - 2006/12/18 04:43 After HOURS of trying different combinations, and looking at the results, I got this to work, thanks to Chris:

wget -q 'http://www.nextwavetech.us/joomcom3/index.php?option=com_acajoom&act=cron'

Thanks,
Ken

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Re:Setting up CRON on cPanel - 2006/12/18 20:41 Please also check our documentation on Cron at:
http://www.acajoom.com/content/view/4249/82/

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Re:Setting up CRON on cPanel - 2006/12/18 21:17 Thanks. Unfortunately, I got a little misdirected by my hosting company, and was not familiar enough with cron to know better. The -O stuff regarding output didn't work for me, because getting the exact paths for your hosting files seems challenging when you don't have SSH, at least to me.

Maybe you can update the documentation page to indicate whether getting the HTML from that page in your email confirmation is correct. I thought that maybe it was, but apparently, is not.

Thanks again for jumping in, even during your vacation.

K

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Re:Setting up CRON on cPanel - 2007/03/03 12:15 I had problems with my hosting company not giving me cron jobs. So I found a site which actually just does cron jobs other than webcron.org.

This is a paid service, $20 for 5 tasks for a year. It will do them once a minute, where webcron.org was only once an hour.

The company is www.webbasedcron.com

Another option anyhow. . .

dwane

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Re:Setting up CRON on cPanel - 2007/04/29 13:11 how do i know if i my cronjob settings are not working

I have a problem with the auto-responder not sending the autorespond email ou, how do i test this function and get it to finally send it?

I've looked at all tutorials and also have tried suggestions in the forums.. help!

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