Hi There,
I came across an issue with my Crob Jobs. I fixed it (i think...????) so just wanted to share if anyone else is experiencing the same issue.
I'm running dolphin on a linux box in which php was installed as an Apache Module, instead of a separate CGI.
Very important clarification here...
Once I installed the software, I added the 3 separate cron jobs. (cmd.php, cupid.php, notifies.php).
The instructions said to add each path with the "/usr/bin/php -q" before the path to each of the cron job files to run.
Example: 0 0 * * * /usr/bin/php -q /var/www/html/dolphin/periodic/cmd.php
Apparently, "/usr/bin/php -q" only works when you are running PHP as a CGI, not an Apache module.
As a result, i was being emailed every hour (and ten minutes) a message saying that I was missing my "mbstring" extension...when I had already verified that the extension was added on compile.
Solution??
I had to install "lynx", a browser for linux, go to the crob jobs and add each cron job as if lynx was accessing each page. Example:
lynx -dump http://208.84.148.186/dolphin/periodic/cmd.php
Once i did this, I realized it wasn't working yet, because there's an .htaccess file in the "dolphin/periodic" folder which denies access to all .php files.
So i ended up renaming the .htaccess to something else ("donotuse.htaccess.donotuse"), and voila!!
The cron jobs run....and are sending me meaninful information instead of the "missing mbstrings" crap which I already knew i had installed.
Now...I don't know what is the impact of not having a working .htaccess file in that directory.....is this a high security risk? will someone come and hack my site?
Bueller? anyone? anyone? Bueller?
What do you think?
