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#1 by its4u

I have setup a Drupal site on http://www.itsupportforyou.co.uk.

Everything works fine except for the following:

A requirement of the installation is that a cron job is run periodically on the cron.php file (see: http://www.drupal.org/cron).

On my test system I have just enabled the following line within my cron jobs:

45 * * * * /usr/bin/wget -O - -q http://www.itsupportforyou.co.uk/cron.php

Can this be done for my site on your server? If so how?

Additionally, does the server support lynx, wget or curl?

If not, I need to use a perl script, as follows:

#!/usr/bin/perl
require HTTP::Request;
require LWP::UserAgent;
$request = HTTP::Request->new(GET => 'http://www.itsupportforyou.co.uk/cron.php');
$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$response = $ua->request($request);
$code = $response->code($code);
$message = $response->message($message);
print STDOUT $code . " " . $message . "\n";

If I were to save this as a perl script in my cgi-bin, I will still need to use cron to schedule the job (i.e. "00 * * * * /home/username/bin/cron.pl > /dev/null 2>&1")

Again, how can I setup the cron job?

Also, do you allow ssh connections to webspaces?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards,

Jon Bryan

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Posted on Friday, 17th August 2007 at 1:36pm

#2 by admin

I'm afraid we don't support crontabs or shh on our virtual hosting platforms. If you are interested in such capabilities we suggest looking into upgrading to our dedicated hosting service where you would have your own server where you can support any services you require.

See http://hosting.supanet.com/dedicated-servers/

Posted on Friday, 17th August 2007 at 2:17pm

#3 by its4u

OK no problem, thanks all the same.

I'll go with another solution.

Out of interest, I have considered hosting the website on my own equipment.

If I wanted to go ahead with this can I just change the IP address of the A record for the www host - pointing it to my own IP address?

Regards,

Jon Bryan

Posted on Friday, 17th August 2007 at 2:51pm

#4 by admin

Theoretically that should work providing you have a static IP address. If not you would have to constantly update your A Record.

Posted on Friday, 17th August 2007 at 3:15pm

#5 by its4u

Nice

Cheers Chaps/Chapesses!

Posted on Friday, 17th August 2007 at 3:45pm

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