My Problems with CronJobs and whmcs Automation Tasks

[Ahmed]

Hi guys,
Can anyone help me please!

I have a RC account in H9 and I want to execute an automation tasks inside my whmcs and for that I have to use one of the two commands:
either: "php -q /home/myUsername/public_html/billing/admin/cron.php"
or: "GET http://www.hostingstations.com/billing/admin/cron.php"

but when I use the first command, NO message I receive, although I provided my email address.

and when I use the second command, I receive this message: "/bin/sh: GET: command not found"

My questions please are:
1- Where is the problem exactly (inside my whmcs or CronJobs Command in my cPanel)?
2- Is there anything else I have to write it in CornJobs Command (such as, /usr/lib/ or /usr/bin/)?
3- what about my "cron.php" file that I want to execute it, Should I write any command inside it (such, #!/usr/lib/ -q) at the top of the "cron.php" file content?


Best Regards
Ahmed Almonajed

[kobra]

Instead of the sugested:

php -q /home/myUsername/public_html/billing/admin/cron.php

Try this as your cron directive:

curl -o /dev/null http://your_domain.com/billing/admin/cron.php

[Ahmed]

Hi Kobra,
Thank you for your quick reply

When I used this code:
"curl -o /dev/null http://your_domain.com/billing/admin/cron.php"
I received this message:

% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0

So, what does this mean?

Regards

[kobra]

As I recall, this is "SUCCESS" - - BUT there were no transactions to process.

Remember what this is doing for WHMCS - it is to be scheduled for once a day to process things like invoicing and the like.

WHMCS uses other routines for account creation and email, etc.

If you are in a testing environment where no accounts are active and would get an erroneous mail/invoice - - you can set this to cron say at 30 min intervals and create a test account and set the next invoice to today and upon cron excecution you should receive an invoice.

Then set cron back to once a day

[H9NickH]

Hello,

When you use:
php -q /home/myUsername/public_html/billing/admin/cron.php

Do you receive a message from the WHMCS system with the details of your cron?

The cron system will only email you when there are errors with your cron.

[JohnSc]

About 3 months ago, I started getting error messages from WHMCS cron. All the email says is "No input file specified"

I changed nothing in the cron setup in cPanel, and as far as I know, there should only be one cron set up, however I get this same error after a 1:00AM job that I know about, and then another one shortly after 10:00AM every day. I have to go in and manually do all the billing and reminders etc. as automation is just plain not working.

Will installing the new update fix this? Also how do I get rid of that second cron? I have searched my WHMCS installation and I do not find any file with "cron" in the name.