Re: run cakephp shell on remote host

Thanks Ryan,

Always a life saver. That's exactly what I want to know.

-David

On Mar 13, 12:40 am, Ryan Schmidt <google-2...@ryandesign.com> wrote:
> On Mar 12, 2011, at 22:21, Tan Cheng wrote:
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> > I need your help again. I know this is a stupid question, just need
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> > I am hosting with a remote host, they provide cronjob support in
> > cpanel but no direct SSH support. In cpanel, I can setup the frequency
> > by some dropdown menu, and there is a text input area to type the
> > command line you want to run at that frequency. So I want to learn how
> > to write that line of command.
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> > I looked at some tutorials, and it seems like, the format to run a
> > cakephp shell by command line is:
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> > absolute/path/to/console/cake -app"/path/to/app" shellname
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> > But my question is where do I specify the full path to the php cli?
> > (Do I need to?) On my local machine, I can add the path for php cli,
> > for example "/opt/lampp/bin:$PATH" in the .profile file. But I don't
> > have SSH access to the shared hosting, so can I do that in the line
> > above?
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> If cpanel has a separate place where you can input environment variables, you can set the PATH environment variable there.
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> If not, you can try to prepend it to the command line, like this:
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> PATH="/opt/lampp/bin:$PATH" absolute/path/to/console/cake -app"/path/to/app" shellname
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> Or you could write a wrapper script, like the one shown here:
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> http://book.cakephp.org/view/1110/Running-Shells-as-cronjobs
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> If "php" is already in the standard PATH on the server, then you might not need any of the above.

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