Cron with Plesk and PHP Script

[yogesh]

Hi everybody,

I have set up a cron job from within Plesk to run a PHP script that backs up a MYSQL database.

I usually access the script in my browser and it works OK.

I am recieving the email below with the output from the cron and it is not too happy

X-Cron-Env: <MAILTO=nospam@gmail.com>
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/var/www/vhosts/mysite.com>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=web123>

/var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs/sub-folder/phpmysqlautobackup/run.php: line 1: ?: No such file or directory
/var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs/sub-folder/phpmysqlautobackup/run.php: line 2: /aquota.user: Permission denied
/var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs/sub-folder/phpmysqlautobackup/run.php: line 3: anon_ftp: command not found
/var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs/sub-folder/phpmysqlautobackup/run.php: line 4 -- This message may have been cut off and the rest will only be shown to members. To become a member, click here --

[enron]

Hi buddy

Find the exact path of your cron job pages using the following code in your any of the page in that specific folder,

Code:

<?php
$file_path = realpath("run.php");

print $file_path;
?>

and replace this exact path in cron job file..

Permission denied error is due to file permissions of run.php, CHMOD 777 your run.php because page running under cron job must be executable.

Code:
/var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs/sub-folder/phpmysqlautobackup/run.php: line 3: anon_ftp: command not found
/var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs/sub-folder/phpmysqlautobackup/run.php: line 4: syntax error near unexpected token `uses'
/var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs/sub-folder/phpmysqlautobackup/run.php: line 4: ` * (uses the MySQL export library from *'

these errors are related to your run.php page code so paste your run.php co -- This message may have been cut off and the rest will only be shown to members. To become a member, click here --