Joomla Cron not finding setting files

Question

Running Joomla 3.9.0 Civicrm 5.7.0 PHP 7.0.2

Recently update Civicrm to 5.7.0 - Prior version and my cron job was working fine. Now it hasn't run since November 7th

Run cli.php

php /var/www/clients/client1/web2/web/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/bin/cli.php -s domain_name.com -u user -p password -e Job -a execute

Output is

PHP Warning:  include_once(/var/www/clients/client1/web2/web/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/../..//default/civicrm.settings.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/clients/client1/web2/web/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/civicrm.config.php on line 118
PHP Warning:  include_once(): Failed opening '/var/www/clients/client1/web2/web/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/../..//default/civicrm.settings.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /var/www/clients/client1/web2/web/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/civicrm.config.php on line 118
Could not load the settings file at: /var/www/clients/client1/web2/web/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/../..//default/civicrm.settings.php

I have looked at some of the patches. But the patches are older than the version I have.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

Answer 1

Check your administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/civicrm.config.php file. It should be only 12 lines long and look like the following:

<?php
define('CIVICRM_SETTINGS_PATH', '<www root>/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm.settings.php');
$error = @include_once( '<www root>/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm.settings.php' );
if ( $error == false ) {
    echo "Could not load the settings file at: <www root>/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm.settings.php
";
    exit( );
}

// Load class loader
require_once $civicrm_root . '/CRM/Core/ClassLoader.php';
CRM_Core_ClassLoader::singleton()->register();

The 3 paths to civicrm.settings.php within civicrm.config.php should all be absolute. Your PHP warnings show that /../..//default/ is in the path, which is incorrect for Joomla. I can't explain how it (or code that is generating it) ended up in your civicrm.config.php; this forum post might give a clue. If your civicrm.config.php is not as per the above, replace it with this, substituting with the correct path.