CodeIgniter Cron Job through Cpanel

Question

Ok I looked at every other thread and have done exactly what they\'ve done and what it says in the manual and I can NOT figure this out for the life of me. The results of th

Answer 1

The default PHP install you are using was probably compiled as CGI-FCGI, not for CLI. It depends on your host and/or server, but you'll need to search for your PHP install for the command line interface, and then use that in your cron job. I had the exact same problem on Hostmonster, and my cron command ended up being:

/ramdisk/bin/php5-cli ~/public_html/sitefolder/index.php controller method

For me, the PHP I needed was in /ramdisk/bin/php5-cli.