Setup the Flarum scheduler using cron

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!

Oshvam

IanM Hi Ianm, You might want to update the main post with this info, it might be helpful. For those using DirectAdmin, the cronjob is usually a bit different. This is the one I have configured and it works. You only have to change the user and domain in the path

* * * * * cd /home/YOUR-USER/domains/YOUR-DOMAIN/public_html/; /usr/local/bin/php && php flarum schedule:run >/dev/null 2>&1

Collecting the configurations of various systems (PLESK, CPanel, DirectAdmin...etc) could be useful and would certainly unload this thread of questions.

masihdindar

Hi,
What is cronjob command for shared hosting "cPanel"?

Abk-devs

Hello Guys,
Here's how to setup the cron on Namecheap
i used this on my Windev Forum WxDevs

cd /home/libepval/wxdevs.com && /usr/local/bin/php flarum schedule:run

and if your Flarum install is in the main directory use this

cd /home/libepval/Public_Html && /usr/local/bin/php flarum schedule:run

You must know that (libepval) is my cpanel Username.

Good Luck

enricodx

I’m experimenting with cron jobs and cpanel, based on what I found in this thread, can someone help me? Which command have the correct formatting?

cd /home/YOUR-USER/YOUR-DOMAIN; /usr/local/bin/php && php flarum schedule:run >/dev/null 2>&1

cd /home/YOUR-USER/YOUR-DOMAIN && /usr/local/bin/php flarum schedule:run

cd /home/YOUR-USER/YOUR-DOMAIN && php flarum schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

Cactus1805

enricodx cd /home/YOUR-USER/YOUR-DOMAIN && /usr/local/bin/php flarum schedule:run works for me.

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