I am just trying to run a PHP script using a cron job within CPanel - is this the correct syntax:
/usr/bin/php -q /home/username/public_html/cron/cron.php >/dev/null
I am not getting any email notifications stating a cron has been completed, do I need to do anything specific with the PHP file?
Looks like that you copied your full php.ini from your windows machine (probably the dev environment) up to a remote server which is running some linux distribution.
The extensions listed in your xampp provided php.ini won't work this way over there. If you are certain that you want to copy the whole php.ini from your dev machine, (you most likely won't need that) you will probably have to remove or edit the extension= lines to fit the environment (They most likely should end with .so at least and have a different path). Checking every path related setting would be wise too.
(Using full paths in every extension= line is foolish since there's extension_dir)
Your cron should change the working directory before running PHP:
cd /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/app/protected/classes/cron/ && /usr/bin/php -q runner.php
Note that if the directory does not exist, PHP will not run runner.php.
Crontab needs the full path on your server.
0 0 * * * php /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/scripts/example.php
This will execute every day at midnight.
This was the answer:
Use /usr/local/bin/php instead of /usr/bin/php to get codeigniter to pick up on the URI segments.
In crontab system :
/usr/bin/phpis php binary path (different in some systems ex: freebsd/usr/local/bin/php, linux:/usr/bin/php)/home/username/public_html/cron/cron.phpshould be your php script path/dev/nullshould be cron output , ex:/home/username/stdoutx.txtSo you can monitor your cron by viewing cron output
/home/username/stdoutx.txt