Good afternoon,

I have 6 feeds set-up in the Aggregator Scraper, version 1.9.9. My goal is to have 5 articles post from each feed every other hour at 5 minute intervals so they are not pulling at the same time. I have set-up my cron jobs as follows:
Feed #1 5 */2 * * *

Feed #2 10 */2 * * *

Feed #3 15 */2 * * * and so on.

The cron job setting on cPanel is *5 * * * *

This morning all the feeds ran at approximately 7:33 with no problem. However, the feeds have not ran since this time. Prior to setting up my cron jobs, all feeds posted perfectly with no issues when I manually imported them.

I am on Joomla 3.7.2, PHP version 5.6.30, max execution time is 60 seconds, and memory limit 128M.

Thank you for your assistance.
Kat

Kat, the cron job setting on cPanel must be:

1. to execute cron every 5 minute:

2. or to execute cron on 5-th minute every hour:


On this screen are more examples:

Good morning,
Still not working. Any other things I can check?
Thank you.

Switch on email report for crons - in both cpanel cron options and in component to see when cron is executed and are feeds imported.

Feeds have not run since yesterday, 6/14, at 10:18 am. Could it be the hosting service I am using? I REALLY need this component to work. I have 16 other sites I need to install your product on.

Thank you for your patience and your help.

Kat

Kat, if you think your host provider have problem with crons, try this free cron job service: http://3dwebdesign.org/forum/free-cron-ser...cron-jobs-t2035


You have probably done these steps, but anyway I will post it again here to be sure:

1. Create file with name mycron.php. Code for this php file:



2. Upload file mycron.php in your public_html. Create cronjob in your cpanel with command:


3. Set cron to run in your control panel (cpanel or other) every 5 or 3 minutes (recommended). In Unix Style view this should be:


or


4. Configure your feeds.
5. Test every feed manual!
6. Try to import every feed without extras like scraper and image download first! More functions switched on in every feed = more load for your server!
7. When you are sure that all feeds configuration is OK, configure cron part. Before using cron, please, read this thread: Cron Job configuration and server load.

Here again. I re-checked all the steps and I have completed each. Please review the string below which outlines another user's issue with HostGator. I use HostGator. As I mentioned earlier, I am on version 1.9.9, but I am more than willing to upgrade to the open source version without ion cube if it will solve my problems.


http://3dwebdesign.org/forum/strange-behav...hostgator-t2301


Thank you.

Kat, I can't confirm that hostgator is the problem. You must check if component's requirements for your version are achieved - mbstring and ioncube loader.n If ioncube is not working or is not configured properly, all component's features will not work, not only cron.

If component's requirements are ok, try to increase max execution time to 120 seconds, and memory limit to 160 or better to 256MB. Keep in mind that the main setting that limit the most of imports is max execution time, not memory. If in your configured rss feed you have switched on function "download images", import will be very slow.


P.S. If you want to upgrade to Open Source version without limits, just send me email (admin attttt 3dwebdesign.org)