设置Crontab以在CentOS中执行PHP脚本

Question

I have searched hell and high water for a solution to a problem I'm having in CentOS. I'm trying to set up a cron job that executes a PHP script. I was able to get this working using wget, but now that we are going into production, I need to find a way to do this whilst being more secure, as the cron job itself works with sensitive data.

The error that I'm getting is: -bash: php: command not found.

Now I've looked around and I've seen people having the same problem, but nothing has been able to help me get this working.

For reference, here is what the working crontab looked like using the wget command.

* * * * * wget http://www.domain.com/cron_script.php

This is working fine, but I need to translate this into executing via PHP, rather than making an HTTP request to get the job done.

Let me know if I left anything out.

Answer 1

Cron doesn't have it's PATH set. The easiest thing is to change the php command to the full path of the php binary.

/usr/bin/php /path/to/yourscript.php

I'm fairly certain that's the path in CentOS but you can know for sure by doing which php on the command line and it will tell you.