Re: PHP + Cron jobs

Shawn McKenzie wrote: > Waynn Lue wrote: >> Yup, you're completely right. I checked the cronjob and got this: >> >> PHP 5.2.6 (cgi) (built: Aug 11 2008 13:39:32) >> Copyright (c) 1997-2008 The PHP Group >> Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2008 Zend Technologies >> with Advanced PHP Debugger (APD) v0.9, , by George Schlossnagle >> >> Turns out there's /usr/bin/php, which is the cgi version, and >> /usr/local/bin/php, which is the cli version. So I see three possiblities. >> 1. Change the shebang on the php script itself, 2. change the crontab to >> reflect to path I care about, or 3. replace /usr/bin/php. I'd prefer the >> 3rd, but does that cause problems for me in my actual web pages? >> >> Thanks, >> Waynn >> > Depends upon whether your webserver is using the PHP CGI binary or the > apache module. I thought common convention was that the CGI was named > php-cgi? > > I would rename '/usr/bin/php' to '/usr/bin/php-cgi', grep your web > server conf file(s) for /usr/bin/php and if found then change it to > /usr/bin/php-cgi. > > -Shawn > Along with that, I would opt for always using the full path in the cron job. -Shawn