SOLVED: Crap... why is it always you figure something out right AFTER you finally decided to ask for help!!
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This was the answer:
Use /usr/local/bin/php
instead of /usr/bin/php
to get codeigniter to pick up on the URI segments.
For me this is what worked:
php54 -f /home/{cpanel_user}/public_html/index.php controller function
Here is solution first you need to find path from phpinfo document_root path
php5 /home/abc/public_html/index.php folder_name controller_name function_name
It's 100% working
I'm glad you got it working Mike. I ran into similar problems and ended up using the CI Cron Job Bootstrapper on a recent project that was running on a cPanel host. I'm just posting this incase it helps someone else.