cron syntax help needed

Hello All,

I'm having no luck in getting a cron to run as needed. I've searched the forum and tried many different options but I still can't get it done and I'm hoping someone here might have a solution. The developer of the script I use for the website this cron is required for indicates that "We advice to use the commands which ping cron's URL - not physical path to the cron php file." and gives the following examples:

/usr/bin/lynx -source http://mysite.com/members/cron_amazon.php

or

GET http://mysite.com/members/cron_amazon.php > /dev/null

I'm using php V5.4.45 and the user for the account where the website files are is "mysexy"

Thanks for your suggestions and help.

Hi there

What are you trying to do with the cron ? , what do you currently have that isn't working ?

Hello Glenn,

The file "cron_amazon.php" moves images and video uploaded to the website to an Amazon S3 server. This can be done manually by opening "http://mysite.com/members/cron_amazon.php" in a web browser, but the cron job is meant to automate the process.

I've tried various commands such as:
/usr/local/cwp/php54/bin/php -q /home/mysexy/public_html/members/cron_amazon.php

and

/usr/local/cwp/php54/bin/php -GET http://mysite.com/members/cron_amazon.php > /dev/null

but none of them load the mysite.com/members/cron_amazon.php file.

Ok , if you want to emulate the activity of a web browser you could use lynx

 lynx http://mysite.com/members/cron_amazon.php > /dev/null

or to just run the file let php open it but from within a folder path

php /path to file/cron_amazon.php > /dev/null

i would also try leaving the > /dev/null part out it should cause the root user to get an email with the reason the cron failed , but i think the examples above will work for you

Thank you again for your help Glenn. I'm still not completely clear on one part though. So in the command form would I just put in

" lynx http://mysite.com/members/cron_amazon.php > /dev/null" or is something needed with it like

" /usr/local/bin/php lynx http://mysite.com/members/cron_amazon.php > /dev/null"

You should just need

lynx http://mysite.com/members/cron_amazon.php > /dev/null

lynx is a text line "browser" not a php library, you may however need to install lynx

you install lynx