Post By Mail Cron Not Working [solved] Options

[marcodeluca]

Just purchased the post by mail component and setup cron jobs as you described and they were not working. So I setup a bunch of cronjobs with different syntax, and am getting errors like:

Код

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/server/public_html/workincity/libraries/joomla/string/string.php on line 970
xajax Error: xajax failed to automatically identify your Request URI.Please set the Request URI explicitly when you instantiate the xajax object.

I think something is wrong with your cron.post_by_email.php script.

[Web Design Seo]

I dont see any error from files of post by email. If you find something more, please, post it here after 20 august. Support will be available only after 20 august.

[marcodeluca]

Well, there's definitely something not working. Sorry I posted in a rush yesterday so here are more details:

- Post by Email Pro 1.5.9
- j2.5
- cPanel on a dedicated host

I regularly setup cron jobs without issues, executing a php file is a simple job so Im really not sure what the problem is. But it's definitely not working for me.

Has anyone else out there set this component up on j25 and configured cron job to work properly?

[marcodeluca]

Okay I got it working. For anyone else doing this through cpanel, if you have problems it could be because of user permissions accessing the cron or wget folders on your server. I used curl, and I made sure that the cpanel user running the cron had permission to access /usr/bin/curl, and then used the following syntax for cron:

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/usr/bin/curl -o --url http://mysite.com/administrator/components/com_post_by_email/cron.post_by_email.php > /dev/null 2>&1

You'll need to have root access to edit the permissions of /usr/bin/curl, and you can use CHOWN or CHMOD commands to fix permission problems.

[Chris Grant]

Okay I got it working. For anyone else doing this through cpanel, if you have problems it could be because of user permissions accessing the cron or wget folders on your server. I used curl, and I made sure that the cpanel user running the cron had permission to access /usr/bin/curl, and then used the following syntax for cron:

CODE

/usr/bin/curl -o --url http://mysite.com/administrator/components/com_post_by_email/cron.post_by_email.php > /dev/null 2>&1

You'll need to have root access to edit the permissions of /usr/bin/curl, and you can use CHOWN or CHMOD commands to fix permission problems.

I have just moved my site to SiteGround VPS running php 5.3.16 and J1.7.5 with Kunena 2+

The script runs fine from a browser but as sson as I put it in a cron I get errors in my cron email

xajax Error: xajax failed to automatically identify your Request URI.Please set the Request URI explicitly when you instantiate the xajax object.

I'm using
/usr/local/bin/php -q /home/mysite/public_html/administrator/components/com_post_by_email/cron.post_by_email.php

I never have trouble running other php scripts on cron like this.

A bit of googling suggests that axaj is no longer supported in php 5.3 and above
e.g.http://forums.eukhost.com/f29/cron-error-14971/

If this is the case Ivan then when will you be able to fix it please, loads of Linux hosts are running 5.3+ and I don't recall any warning on your spec. Is the ajax actually needed for the Kunena imports or is it there for other apps that I don't need. Perhaps I can rem it out for now?

Thanks for your tip Marco but I don't have root access to try what you suggest so I'm stuck.

[Ivan Stamenov]

Hi, Chris.

Please try the following:

1. Open /administrator/components/com_post_by_email/cron.post_by_email.php
2. Put the following code somewhere at the beginning of the file, e.g. right after the opening PHP tag:

Код

if (empty($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']))
    $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] = 'localhost';
if (empty($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']))
    $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] = 'get';

This will allow the xajax object to initialize successfully.
This is a quick and dirty fix, though. You will get the xajax response XML on your e-mail every time the cron fires (if you set an e-mail address to receive the cron output at).

Xajax will be completely removed in the next version of PBM.

Best regards,

Ivan