Running cron job CiviCRM on Drupal in the CPanel

Question

I am trying to configure the CiviCRM file "sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/cron.php" to be run as a cron job. If I paste the url:

https:// domain.com/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/cron.php?name=username&pass=password&key=key

in to the web browser, with the username, password and key specified then the cron.php is triggered.

But if I create a cron entry via the CPanel and define the command as:

/usr/local/bin/php /home/username/domain/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/cron.php?name=username&pass=password&key=key

then the cron job is not triggered.

If i try:

/usr/bin/wget https://domain/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/cron.php?name=username&pass=password&key=key

then the cron job is equally not triggered.

Any ideas what the issue might be? Or what else i could try to get it to run?

At the moment I do not have access to server logs so can't see what is causing the issue.

Answer 1

I appear to have resolved the issue with the help of the thread at Cron job with shared hosting CPanel

The issue was related to missing backslashes after the username and the password.

/usr/bin/wget https://domain/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/cron.php?name=username\&pass=password\&key=key