Setup the Flarum scheduler using cron

murdocklawless

luceos I changed crontab like this, I think it's corrext syntax;

* * * * * www-data cd /var/www/html && php flarum schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

but did not work.

I run php flarum schedule:run in directory var/www/html and;

[2022-02-23T17:44:23+00:00] Running scheduled command: Publish all scheduled drafts.

no drafts nothing published.

Hari

murdocklawless before setting cron job check whether its working or not, go to your flarum directory using CD and run PHP flarum info then try php flarum schedule:run if it's working then you should configure something like this Hari

murdocklawless

Hari I ran the command you mentioned;

php flarum mercury:update-check --notify

There are no commands defined in the "mercury" namespace.

murdocklawless

it seems working;

root@flarum:/var/www/html# php flarum schedule:run
[2022-02-23T17:53:17+00:00] Running scheduled command: Publish all scheduled drafts.

Hari

murdocklawless i think i did not understand your problem correctly, wait for someone else reply

Hari

murdocklawless did you install mercury? you need to get key from Extiverse and configure it. i don't recommend you to set a cron for it because it's better to update manually and run flarum migrate commands.

you will also find the check for updates button at admin panel which is good enough

https://discuss.flarum.org/d/27620-mercury-the-extiverse-extension-to-understand-extension-updates

murdocklawless

Hari there is no update.

Hari

murdocklawless did you add token here? i think everything is up to date?

murdocklawless

Hari yes

bryx

On my side, I am the only one who has a Flarum installation that does not work with cron jobs?

Thanks 😉

askvortsov

bryx What errors are you getting?

bryx

askvortsov > No error about the cron job. Nevertheless, as said by @murdocklawless. If I go through the terminal of cPanel the command runs normally, it says that it has put online. However, not everything that is in draft is automatically published.

I use next extenssions:

FoF Drafts
FoF Sitemap

Thanks ^^

murdocklawless

I setup scheduler via cron but scheduled drafts do not work. System log says cronjob worked without problem but drafts still waiting in pool.

Teddan

murdocklawless yes ， I have the same problem. I have to manually use command php flarum schedule:run to post draft actually. Not sure if it's working on Popular Disccusion

murdocklawless

Teddan the problem was solved, update drafts extension. Also setup a cronjob for automatic publish.

copy paste this to crontab

* * * * * cd /<your flarum directory> && php flarum schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

lichengkun135

Should I run this cron using sudo? because on my side if I run this command without sudo then I couldn't clear the cache using flarum but instead I need to clear cache using ssh every time; ps: I also run a queue using cron on the server

luceos

lichengkun135 you need to run the command with sudo as the user the site runs as, eg www-data. This applies every time to run flarum commands.

lichengkun135

luceos
I'm not sure if I get correctly what you mean😂, but if I try to run this scheduler with sudo then I get errors like:

Could not open input file: flarum

edit: I was dumb, using sudo before php solved the error, the way I used it was incorrect; but the cache clearing issue still exists

mrXmr

luceos Also make sure it runs as the right user, seems to run as root now where it should run as the website user the website runs under www-data or something similar.

luceos you need to run the command with sudo as the user the site runs as, eg www-data. This applies every time to run flarum commands.

According to these, why am I editing the crontab for the current user, then? The command crontab -e in the OP implies that I am changing the crontab for the current user, and not for the www-data user (assuming the flarum install directory belongs to the www-data user and under /var/www/flarum directory).

Should the crontab command be something like, sudo crontab -u www-data -e ?

luceos

lichengkun135 Chown the storage directory to be owned by the web user.

lichengkun135

luceos Thanks!

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