FeedGrab updating automatically with CRON job
Development and Programming
I’m using FeedGrab to post external feeds to the site and based on Andrew Weavers suggestion, I’m trying to use a CRON job to periodically hit the page that refreshes the rss feed. I’ve tried absolutely everything and I cannot get it to work.
I’ve successfully run several cron jobs to the correct url but the entries will not update. Here are some examples of what I tried:
curl http://www.sanctionsnow.com/index.php/blog/bookmarks-go/curl -o --url /dev/null http://www.sanctionsnow.com/index.php/blog/bookmarks-go/php http://www.sanctionsnow.com/index.php/blog/bookmarks-go/wget http://www.sanctionsnow.com/index.php/blog/bookmarks-go/None of it will get the feed to refresh and add the new posts. I’ve even tried using server paths directly to the .php file, but that doesn’t work either…Am I missing something here?
Hope someone can help me out, I’m all out of ideas!
You probably need to precede the “curl” command with the path to that command. CRON doesn’t know about your environment paths. So, something like:
/usr/bin/curl http://www.sanctionsnow.com/index.php/blog/bookmarks-go/
Your path may differ, of course.
Thanks for that! I actually finally got it working with:
wget -q http://www.sanctionsnow.com/blog/bookmarks-goI was wondering if maybe you’d have experience with something else that I noticed with FeedGrab. I have LG Htacess Generator v1.0.0 and when its enable at the same time as FeedGrab, and I go into the Plugin Manager, I get this error at the top:
Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/sanction/public_html/sanctionsys/plugins/pi.feedgrab.php:3110) in /home/sanction/public_html/sanctionsys/extensions/ext.lg_htaccess_generator_ext.php on line 672Any idea whats going on there? I’m completely stumped…