cron “No input file specified” solved
2For quite a while unknown to me my script was not automatically running via the cron job I setup. After entering my email address in cpanel’s standard cron interface, the email I received said:
Status: 404 Not Found
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.5
Content-type: text/html
No input file specified.
A few minutes of searching the net uncovered my mistake. I had a url variable on the command, which cause it not to work. Instead of
php /home/mysite/public_html/filename.php?method=automated
use
php /home/mysite/public_html/filename.php method=automated .
Exclude the question mark in the url variable and that made it work.
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OH MY GOD!! Thank you SOOO much!! I think I literally looked at 70 different sites before finally finding this and fixing it! Thanks sooo much!!!!
Thanks.. very helpful. that little detail was killing me.. and nowhere else I found the solution.
Solid gold.
Thanks,
Luis