I have a problem where my hosting company won't let me run a cron job in this format from my control panel:
/usr/bin/php /home/sites/MYDOMAIN.com/index.php?option=com_community&task=cron
Or:
www.MYDOMAINNAME.com/index.php?option=com_community&task=cron
Now if i run the second job in a browser i.e.:
www.MYDOMAINNAME.com/index.php?option=com_community&task=cron
this works fine in a browser
My support says I have to create a file to run the URL. The only problem is I don’t know how to run a URL in PHP. I have asked a few sites. But nothing. My file is called bump.php
and has the following code:
lynx -dump http://www.MYDOMAIN.com/index.php?option=com_community&task=cron
this is what i have in the file
<?php
echo file_get_contents('DOMAIN.com/index.php?option=com_community&task=cron');
?>