{"id":393,"date":"2018-04-24T02:58:33","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T02:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/info.juliusgoh.life\/?p=393"},"modified":"2018-04-24T03:03:51","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T03:03:51","slug":"crons-php-script-pathing-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/info.juliusgoh.life\/?p=393","title":{"rendered":"Cron&#8217;s php script pathing issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Php include\/require pathing is related to how you run your script in cron for example you are having a PHP script in <i>\/var\/www\/html\/phpscript\/project1\/index.php<\/i> , And below is how the scripts include the files<\/p>\n<pre>\r\n&lt;?php\r\n\r\ninclude(\"..\/include_1.php\");\r\ninclude(\"..\/include_2.php\");\r\n\r\n?&gt;\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>and below is how you run your script in cron.<\/p>\n<pre>\r\n* * * * * php \/var\/www\/html\/phpscript\/project1\/index.php\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>The case above will not work because cron is running in root&#8217;s home folder. There are alternative ways to solve this problem.<br \/>\n1. Cd into the path then run the script as below:-<\/p>\n<pre>\r\n* * * * * cd \/var\/www\/html\/phpscript\/project1\/; php index.php\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>2.To Standarize to use full path in every related script (Not Recommended)<\/p>\n<p>I strongly suggest method 1 because it is easier to handle and if there is changes in phpscript about the pathing you won&#8217;t have to change every related script.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Php include\/require pathing is related to how you run your script in cron for example you are having a PHP script in \/var\/www\/html\/phpscript\/project1\/index.php , And below is how the scripts include the files &lt;?php include(&#8220;..\/include_1.php&#8221;); include(&#8220;..\/include_2.php&#8221;); ?&gt; and below is how you run your script in cron. * * * * * php \/var\/www\/html\/phpscript\/project1\/index.php The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.juliusgoh.life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.juliusgoh.life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.juliusgoh.life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.juliusgoh.life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.juliusgoh.life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/info.juliusgoh.life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406,"href":"https:\/\/info.juliusgoh.life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions\/406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.juliusgoh.life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.juliusgoh.life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.juliusgoh.life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.juliusgoh.life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}