CRON task on protected site

[jfquestiaux]

Hi,

I need to trigger the Fabrik cron plugin on a site protected by a htaccess file.

Is there a way to "sneak in", maybe calling the cron directly to a PHP CLI call to a file through the server that hosts the site?

 

[cheesegrits]

Are you triggering it with a cron job, firing a wget?

If so, you should just be able to provide the username and password in the wget call ...

wget --user=foo --password=bar123 http://your.site/whatever?fabrik_cron=yoursecret

If you have special characters in the password, you may have to % encode them, like %21 for !

-- hugh

 

[jfquestiaux]

Thanks Hugh. I will test that.

 

[jfquestiaux]

Hi,
I reopen this post because I still have issues with this cron task (email plugin).

I have a prefiltered list and a PHP condition returning either true or false and if the condition is met, an email is sent and an element gets updated to the date sent via:

$now = new DateTime();
return $now->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');

Manually, everything works fine, even though I have this error in the log file (AFTER the message "mail sent"):

2,DateTime::__construct(): Failed to parse time string (NOW()) at position 3 ((): Unexpected character,/home/xxx/public_html/libraries/fabrik/fabrik/Helpers/Worker.php,2018

and also the time of last run is not updated


If I try triggering the task via ?fabrik_cron=1, I get just the error above and nothing else.


Is it a bug or something I set up wrongly?

 

[jfquestiaux]

Friendly bump.

 

[cheesegrits]

No idea. Do you have any pre-filters that use NOW()?

-- hugh

 

[jfquestiaux]

Yes, on the list connected to the cron task.

 

[cheesegrits]

What happens if you disable that?

-- hugh

 

[jfquestiaux]

Well somehow it seems that it resolves itself. Still reports some errors but the cron is triggered. Let's leave it be.