Hi

What's the cronjob syntax for running, for e.g.:

www.mysite.com/index2.php?option=com_goo...p;product_country=US

Thanks

Eddie

I think you would need to replace the www.mysite.com/ part with the actual physical path to the site on your server eg




what exactly this is will depend on your server. Because it is a php script you will normally need to precede the command with the path to php,

eg


again this will depend on your server, you may need to check with your web hosts

Instead of using index2.php you might find that



works better. You may need to make the index.php file executable as well.

Hello

Isn't an input required and to be specified?

I'm sorry I don't understand the question.

My cron command is:

php "/home/footyfan/public_html/index.php?option=com_googlebasexml&format=xml&product_currency=USD&product_country=US"

When run it returns:

Status: 404 Not Found
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.17
Content-type: text/html

No input file specified.

As I said, normally you need to include the complete path to PHP, just using the PHP command is not enough.

Susan Boggler wrote:


I do urge you to contact the web host support on this, they will probably be able to tell you more.

I have to add that I am not an expert in running cron jobs, it is something I have set up on occasion, but not with this, so I cannot be sure that what you are attempting will work at all.

I do question why you are trying to do this, as I don't see the reason to run it as a cron job. You can submit the feed directly to Google. If that isn't enough for you, for example if you want to submit the text file that the component outputs, and have it updated regularly, all you need is something that will regularly ping the web address of the feed.

Hi

Sorry for late reply. I sorted this by getting Google to take the feed, as you suggested.

Another question, if I run a feed in a browser it produces the file in a few minutes but the feed never appears in the browser. It used to.

Any clues?

Best

Eddie

Yes, I think that getting Google to take the feed is best in general.

I will try to take a look at running the extension as a cron job when I have a chance - as I said I am not really an expert on that. But I can see that there might be reasons why it could be useful.

If you run the feed in a browser what you see depends on the browser, how it chooses to display xml. If you want to see the XML that is being generated you should be able to right-click on it and select 'view page source' to do that - if you are using Firefox. Other browsers have similar ways of letting you see the source.