Thanks Ryan, Always a life saver. That's exactly what I want to know.
-David On Mar 13, 12:40 am, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 12, 2011, at 22:21, Tan Cheng wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I need your help again. I know this is a stupid question, just need > > someone to help me explain. > > > I am hosting with a remote host, they provide cronjob support in > > cpanel but no direct SSH support. In cpanel, I can setup the frequency > > by some dropdown menu, and there is a text input area to type the > > command line you want to run at that frequency. So I want to learn how > > to write that line of command. > > > I looked at some tutorials, and it seems like, the format to run a > > cakephp shell by command line is: > > > absolute/path/to/console/cake -app"/path/to/app" shellname > > > But my question is where do I specify the full path to the php cli? > > (Do I need to?) On my local machine, I can add the path for php cli, > > for example "/opt/lampp/bin:$PATH" in the .profile file. But I don't > > have SSH access to the shared hosting, so can I do that in the line > > above? > > If cpanel has a separate place where you can input environment variables, you > can set the PATH environment variable there. > > If not, you can try to prepend it to the command line, like this: > > PATH="/opt/lampp/bin:$PATH" absolute/path/to/console/cake -app"/path/to/app" > shellname > > Or you could write a wrapper script, like the one shown here: > > http://book.cakephp.org/view/1110/Running-Shells-as-cronjobs > > If "php" is already in the standard PATH on the server, then you might not > need any of the above. -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
