[how to] make phplist work with Cron Jobs

[bruce7890]

I just got the info from wspademan and it worked first time

[JMH]

On my BlueHost hosted site, I finally got cron to work with the following command:

USER=listprocessor; export USER; /usr/local/bin/php /home/USERNAME/public_html/PATH_TO_PHPLIST/admin/index.php -pprocessqueue -c/home/USERNAME/public_html/PATH_TO_PHPLIST/config/config.php

replacing USERNAME and PATH_TO_PHPLIST with the appropriate information.

The /usr/local/bin/php path is very important; somebody above mentioned that that was where they found the CLI version of PHP. So it was for me, and I would suppose it to be so for others on BlueHost.

[five5]

I finally got it to work for me!

For reference, I am using CPanel and this is what I did:

Thanks very much Julianna, your discoveries and explanation helped me out and IT WORKS!!!

[Guest]

I have configured cron for processqueue as mentioned above, still I receive error below through mail.


Some errors occurred in the PHPlist Mailinglist System
URL:
Error message(s):

Error: You do not have enough privileges to access this page

==== debugging information

SERVER Vars
SHELL=
USER=xyz
PATH=
PWD=
SHLVL=1
HOME
LOGNAME=xyz
_=PHP_SELF=
argv=Array
argc=4

thanks in advance for any help

I have found out a solution for this error.

1) Go to database table ‘phplist_task’ and get the id of the row for processqueue.
2) Then in table ‘phplist_admin_task’ search for the row that has admin user Id (Id of user who suppose to access the processqueue through cron) and the Id mentioned in the step 1.
3) If such a row exists then edit the value of ‘level’ column to 1(if the value is 0).
4) If such a row do not exists the create a new row with a admin user Id (Id of user who suppose to access the processqueue through cron) and the Id mentioned in the step 1 and the ‘level’ column value as 1.

Hope this information will be usefull to All
Vincent
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Hi
I can not see any value for processqueue in table ‘phplist_task’

But when I run the process manually through my browser / admin area - the process runs.

Am I missing something here. My cron is throwing message - Error: You do not have enough privileges to access this page

regards / Prafulla

[BraveDave]

Hello guys, im grateful 4 all ur help.
I implemented this crob job fix.
I did the whole steps,
Command to run:
php /home/albawtaka.com/public_html/mailinglist/admin/index.php page=processqueue login=albawtaka password=password

but i keep getting this email:
Status: 404 Not Found
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.8
Content-type: text/html

No input file specified.


what seems to be the problem?!!!
thanks for ur time guys...

Dave

[Tharina]

I can not find the following line:
output("Sending $messageid to $useremail");
sendEmail($messageid,$useremail,$userhash,$htmlpref,$rssitems);

do I have the wrong version of phplist or am I looking in the wrong file....
"processqueue.php" in the directory /public_html/fountain/admin/

I am not getting this to work and desperately trying to figure out what Im missing

regrds
T

[brianstorm]

hi,
i'm in need of debugging help please (for php cgi)... i think i have followed every variation of the cron processqueue instructions and i can't get any of them to run from cron... (using webmin) i can manually run the jobs, using this line

/usr/local/bin/php-list-process-q.sh -p processqueue >> /dev/null

which refers to this script

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    #!/bin/bash

    # script to run PHPlist from commandline. You may need to edit this to make it work
    # with your shell environment. The following should work for Bash

    # in commandline mode, access is restricted to users who are listed in the config file
    # check README.commandline for more info

    # identify the config file for your installation
    CONFIG=/var/coorcet-path/config/config.php
    export CONFIG

    # alternatively you can use -c <path> on the commandline

    # run the PHPlist index file with all parameters passed to this script
    /usr/bin/php /var/correct-path/admin/index.php page=processqueue login=USERNAME password=PASSWORD       $*

end of script.... (note that i had to change the permissions on the script and convert it using dos2unix to get it to run from the command line - MANUALLY_PROCESS_QUEUE in config.php had to be set at 1)

So, this works fine when I run it within webmin but when I run it on a cron job, I get the following message

Some errors occurred in the PHPlist Mailinglist System
URL:
Error message(s):
Error: You do not have enough privileges to access this page

==== debugging information

SERVER Vars
SHELL=/bin/sh
USER=smtpd-domain
CONFIG=/var/www/html/www.thevoodoorooms.com/www/nu-list/config/config.php
PATH=/usr/bin:/bin
PWD=/home/smtpd-domain
HOME=/home/smtpd-domain
SHLVL=2
LOGNAME=smtpd-domain
_=/usr/bin/php
PHP_SELF=
argv=Array
argc=6

I believe that I must be close, but can't figure out how to fix this error... I'd be very grateful for some advice...
Many thanks
Brian

[H2B2]

Have you looked at this tutorial? [tutorial] crontab queue processing with php-cgi

[brianstorm]

Thank you very much!

That's me got it working... I have tried some php-cgi instructions but I definitely didn't create the new user, once I had that step in place I was able to run straight from cron (no script required)....

H2B2 you are the don!

[entertainas]

OMG!!! Just to say that the blue host solution posted by JMH works perfectly for all those on Blue Host... and I tried every solution posted here before I used this simple easy solution (yes I feel stupid I do all coding and everything myself so finding solutions from forum is so important for me)
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On my BlueHost hosted site, I finally got cron to work with the following command:

USER=listprocessor; export USER; /usr/local/bin/php /home/USERNAME/public_html/PATH_TO_PHPLIST/admin/index.php -pprocessqueue -c/home/USERNAME/public_html/PATH_TO_PHPLIST/config/config.php

replacing USERNAME and PATH_TO_PHPLIST with the appropriate information.

The /usr/local/bin/php path is very important; somebody above mentioned that that was where they found the CLI version of PHP. So it was for me, and I would suppose it to be so for others on BlueHost.

Try this and don't miss out the USER=listprocessor; export USER; part as it is important.

Thanks JMH
WAR - Entertainas

[endjo]

Hi guys,

I could not make this cron working, so

1st:
config.php

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$commandline_users = array();

-

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define("MAILQUEUE_BATCH_SIZE",360);
define("MAILQUEUE_BATCH_PERIOD",3600);
define('MAILQUEUE_THROTTLE',1);

2nd:
I made file cron.php wich i placed in /lists/admin/

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#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
system("/usr/local/bin/php /users/xxxxx/public_html/lists/admin/index.php -pprocessqueue -c/users/xxxxx/public_html/lists/config/config.php")
?>

3rd:
cronjob -

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/usr/local/bin/php -q /users/xxxxxx/public_html/lists/admin/cron.php

message I get from cron:

PHPlist version 2.10.10 (c) 2000-2009 Tincan Ltd, http://www.phplist.com
Usage: /users/xxxxx/public_html/lists/admin/index.php -p page [other parameters]

can anyone help, please !!!!

P.S. - I appologize I posted this twice.

[indidginus]

Now we have to create a file called "phplist" (without the quotes please) in the same directory as the phplist installation.

Just to clarify - I should copy & paste that text into something like notepad & save it as "phplist" with no extension? And then upload it to the lists directory on my webhost?

[popovici]

endjo, I'm not sure if you're on a shared server or a private one, but in any case, ask your hosting service support if using lynx to run the cron is allowed and if so, ask for an example for your cron. I was using the same installation as yours and that's what made the crons run for me.

Good luck!

[drideur]

Hi, every body.
i just param all correctly but the cron repense : /bin/sh: php: command not found
so i modify the command like this : /home/content/s/f/d/sfdev/html/lists/admin/index.php page=processqueue login=login password=passeword (without php)
and i have this message : /bin/sh: /home/content/s/f/d/sfdev/html/lists/admin/index.php: Permission denied


what can i do ?

sos please
thank's

[drideur]

Hi every body,

please help,
in configuration cron of godaddy hosting , i try to put the line command : /web/cgi-bin/php5 "$HOME/html/lists/index.php page=processqueue login=XXXX password=XXXXX", but in the reponse of cron it say :

/web/cgi-bin/php5: Symbol `client_errors' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
Status: 404 Not Found
Content-type: text/html
No input file specified.
in file phplist :
CONFIG= /HOME/html/lists/config/config.php
export CONFIG

/web/cgi-bin/php5 /HOME/html/list/admin/index.php $*

what can i do to resolve this problem??

thank' a lot