Cron not working - Support Forum

Paul

Hi,
For now I use Cache Cleaner v8.2.2 in it's free version.
I try to make a CRON job I get in my CRON logs:

500 Internal Server Error
(…)
exitcode: 0

At that moment, in the Error log I get a

aborted: idle timeout (160 sec)

My Cron job is loading every week a php file with that script inside :

$ch1 = curl_init("https://www.my_site.com/index.php?cleancache=ok");
curl_exec($ch1);
curl_close($ch1);

where "ok" is my cleancache secret password

So cache isn't cleaned and weights 2,2Go

I did something wrong?

Thanks for your help.
Paul

Peter van Westen ADMIN

9 months 1 week ago

Peter van Westen ADMIN

9 months 1 week ago

What do you get if you open that url in the browser?

If your homepage is pretty heavy, you could also choose a light simple page for the cronjob instead. For instance:

https://www.my_site.com/my-small-article?tmpl=component&cleancache=ok

The tmpl=component (if your template/site settings allow it) will show the page without the modules. So just the main component part.

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Paul

9 months 1 week ago

Paul

9 months 1 week ago

Thank you Peter
😉

Paul

9 months 4 days ago

Paul

9 months 4 days ago

Well the weekly CRON job has been triggered this night but doesn't work yet…
I got a "301 Moved Permanently"
Could you please help me?

Peter, after your previous post, last week, when I tried to load the url (https://www.my_site.com/index.php?tmpl=component&cleancache=ok) directly from a browser, it was OK. I got no "301 Moved Permanently", and I the site cache had been cleaned as expected.

But this night when the CRON job opened a php file that contains this code:
$ch1 = curl_init("https://www.my_site.com/index.php?tmpl=component&cleancache=ok");
curl_exec($ch1);
curl_close($ch1);
it resulted in a "301 Moved Permanently" in CRON logs and no cache cleaned…

In CRON logs:

[2024-02-19 04:27:02] ## OVH ## START - 2024-02-19 04:27:02.167523 executing: /usr/local/php7.3/bin/php /homez.899/my_site/www/my_cripts/my_cleancache/cleancache.php 
[2024-02-19 04:27:02] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">[2024-02-19 04:27:02] <html><head>
[2024-02-19 04:27:02] <title>301 Moved Permanently</title>
[2024-02-19 04:27:02] </head><body>
[2024-02-19 04:27:02] <h1>Moved Permanently</h1>
[2024-02-19 04:27:02] <p>The document has moved <a href="https://www.my_site.com/index.php?tmpl=component&amp;cleancache=ok">here</a>.</p>
[2024-02-19 04:27:02] </body></html>
[2024-02-19 04:27:02] 
[2024-02-19 04:27:02] ## OVH ## END - 2024-02-19 04:27:02.397042 exitcode: 0

In Error logs:
I don't get error at [2024-02-19 04:27:02]

Peter van Westen ADMIN

9 months 3 days ago

Peter van Westen ADMIN

9 months 3 days ago

This doesn't have anything to do with Cache Cleaner.
Ask your host why your urls are returning 301 errors via cli and crons.
Maybe a wrong PHP version set for those.
Looking at the output, it is using php 7.3.

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Paul

9 months 3 days ago

Paul

9 months 3 days ago

Peter, sorry for my newbie naïve answer, but as far as I know, in that case, I am not using CLI.
I just use a CRON task from my hoster to open once a week a PHP file that contains a PHP script.
That script is compatible with 7.3 PHP version otherwise I'd got a CRON error in logs.

It seems that this url "https://www.my_site.com/index.php?tmpl=component&cleancache=ok"
- effectively cleans cache when launched directly from a web browser
- returns a 301 when launched from cURL function in PHP script

Are you sure that it's not Cache Cleaner isn't involved in that?

Peter van Westen ADMIN

9 months 3 days ago

Peter van Westen ADMIN

9 months 3 days ago

- effectively cleans cache when launched directly from a web browser

So Cache Cleaner is working

- returns a 301 when launched from cURL function in PHP script

Ask your host why.

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