Realmailer.php
& Weekmailer.php Cron Job Setup
I recently setup an
article web site using articledashboard.com article management
software. The installation went very smoothly until it was time
to set up the Realmailer.php & Weekmailer.php in Cron Job.
There was limited installation info on this subject in the
articledashboard software instructions. I read forum posts from
people saying they worked for hours and even days trying to get
their Realmailer.php & Weekmailer.php to work. Here's
how I got my Realmailer.php to work. (I decided not
to use the Weekmailer.php)
First, I logged into
my cpanel, clicked the Cron Jobs Icon and selected the Advanced
Unix style setup shown below.
Then set up the the
cron job for the file 'realmailer.php' for every minute.
(Just put a star *
in each of the boxes for Minute, Hour, Day, Month, &
Weekday).
The command line path I used was; /usr/bin/php /home/article/public_html/realmailer.php. This
was emailed to me from the hosting company used by Article
Dashboard.. This saved a lot of time. Note
that article is my user account. Put your account
name in place of article
Using this command
line, I began getting emails like this;
/usr/bin/php /home/article/public_html/realmailer.php.
Permission denied. Upon receiving these messages
I knew that the command line was correct but my account info was
somehow not being recognized.
I then sent an email
to the Technical Support department of my hosting company and
explained that I was setting up articledashboard.com's article
management software and was getting a "Permission
denied" error message. I included the
command line I was using in my email
/usr/bin/php /home/article/public_html/realmailer.php.. so they
could take a look and see if it was OK.
I received a message
back from the support department indicating; "We
assigned GET permission for the user 'article'. Now
you should not get the permission denied in Cron."
This fixed the problem.
I then began getting
Cron Daemon messages every minute which basically tells
you it's working. To stop receiving the Cron Daemon messages
every minute, I added > /dev/null to the command
line exactly as shown below;
/usr/bin/php
/home/article/public_html/realmailer.php > /dev/null
Here's a copy of the
complete installation instructions for the articledashboard
software instructions
Ray Rice
ArticleNexus.com
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Articledashboard
Software Installation Instructions:
*Note - Default admin area is www.site.com/admin/
Username: admin
Password: admin
Step #1.
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Give Write Mode (CHMOD 777) to the Following Files:
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a. admintemplates (Directory and its files)
b. emailtemplates (Directory and its files)
c. templates (Directory and its files)
d. photoimages(directory and its files).
e. setup.php
Step #2.
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Creat MySQL database
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a. Create MySQL database and write down username, database name,
and password
Step #3.
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Database Management & Configuration
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a. Go to the url http://www.aplusarticles.net/admin/install.php
file in web browser.
It asks for the following details :
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i. Base_url,
ii Base_path,
iii Database name, aplusart_article
iv Database username, aplusart_data
v Database password, winter
vi Table prefix - Leave blank if not sharing a MySQL database.
Now the required Tables will be created and configured
automatically.
Step #4.
a. Set a cron job for the file 'realmailer.php' for every
minute.
b. Set a cron job for the file 'weekmailer.php' for every Sunday
00.01 AM.
(This is so that site visitors will receive the real time and
weekly article notifications)
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