[drupal-support] Cron Indexing question

[Rajavelu]

Hi,

Try the following command in your cron job.

wget -O - -q http://www.site.com/cron.php

HTH,
Rajavelu.

Grand Junction wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to get the cron.php up and running on my
> new installation of Drupal.  My main purpose in this
> is to index the site for searches.
> 
> I've managed to execute the cron.php file successfully
> via http://sitename/cron.php.  But setting it up via
> the Cron Job manager with my host has been difficult. 
> The host is using cPanel X, generally great, and I've
> managed to get a Cron Job working using a Perl script,
> but for some reason it isn't working on cron.php.
> 
> What was suggested by the host is that I set the file
> permissions to 755, and then set the cron command to
> "php /home/location/of/file/cron.php", which I've
> done, and I know I have the correct location of the
> file (since I was able to execute the Perl script),
> but it just won't index the site (checking that
> through the Administer->Settings->Search page).
> 
> Any suggestions out there?
> 
> Many thanks,
> Matthew O'Malley
> 
> 
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