How to Run cron.php From the Command Line
Submitted by Aleksey on April 27, 2011 – 5:10 amOne Comment
It is strongly recommended to run cron.php from the command line because by default cron is launched through the web-server which creates additional connections.
Solution
Change code in cron.php
/cron.php file should looks like:
<?php
$_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] = ‘example.com';
$_SERVER[‘REMOTE_ADDR’] = ‘127.0.0.1’;
$_SERVER[‘REQUEST_METHOD’] = ‘GET';
chdir(‘/home/…/public_html’); //Путь к папке с cron.php в файловой системе
include_once ‘./includes/bootstrap.inc';
drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_FULL);
?>
Run cron from crontab
Check the path to PHP interpreter. In the example below, we use /usr/local/bin:
/usr/local/bin/php /home/…/public_html/cron.php
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