PHPAdsNew and cron

[hofmax]

I installed PHPAdsNew and am currently trying to get my head round it and it looks like a powerful script.

The only thing I´m stuck on is to run the maintenance cron job. I went to the help centre and looked up how to do it using the standard method.

"/usr/bin/php -q /home/USERNAME/public_html/PathToFile"

so this would equate to:

"/usr/bin/php -q /home/Myuser/public_html/PHPAdsNew/maintenance/maintenance.php"

However, this doesn´t seem to work as PHPAds tells me on every login that the maintenance script hasn´t been run.

I am also confused as to what to put for USERNAME. I log into my CPanel with username "mysite.com" but I access my site via ftp with username "mysite".

When I "save the crontab" no record of the saved cron appears anywhere. Is this supposed to happen?

Can somebody tell me where I´ve gone wrong?

[nine]

I dont know about PHPAdsNew, never used it, but your username would be the first 8 letters of your domain name. So if your domain is myawesomewebsite.com, then your username is "myawesom".

[siguie]

I run it on another site and it really is an awesome script! You might want to try something like this for your cron ...

55 * * * * wget -q -O http://www.yourdomain.com/phpAdsNew/maintenance.php

Basically "wget" is letting you run "maintenance.php" like it was a request coming from a browser. It's been a long time so I don't recall what the "-q -O" do and/or if you need them here but this is what I use on my other site.

[hofmax]

Thanks, siguie but for that I need to apply for SSH access first (maybe a good incentive to get that done, finally.)
But for the time being I tried to work the cron from within CPanel.

@nine I tried the first 8 letters but for some reason my cron is not recorded.


Has anybody else got any experience with setting up a cron to execute a php file via the standard cron tab?

[siguie]

Thanks, siguie but for that I need to apply for SSH access first (maybe a good incentive to get that done, finally.)

Uh what? no you don't just use the advanced setting in cron on the cpanel OR just use "wget -q -O http://www.yourdomain.com/phpAdsNew/maintenance.php" as the command line in the simple cron and select the time in those drop down menu thangs.

I use the "wget" here for my calendar reminders and at some other sites I have that don't allow cron jobs.

[hofmax]

Cheers! At least I got the crontab update message. But is this cron supposed to be recorded somewhere where it says cron x doing this or that? Because there isn´t anything if I go back into the cron menu.