Crontab file PHP doesn’t work but the command line then working

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Hi everybody.
I’m using Hestiacp with ubuntu version 20.4 and install multiple versions php
I created one crontab run file auto.php
I have tried all of the following methods but they don’t work (I restarted the crontab service after each method)
===Methods 1:===
#crontab -e
add: */5 * * * * /usr/bin/php /home/admin/web/myweb.com/public_html/admin/autopost.php
or add: */5 * * * * root /usr/bin/php /home/admin/web/myweb.com/public_html/admin/autopost.php
===Methods 2:===

  • the command line
    #v-add-cron-job admin ‘/5’ '’ ‘’ '’ ‘*’ ‘sudo /usr/bin/php /home/admin/web/myweb.com/public_html/admin/autopost.php’

===Methods 3:===

But when I run the command line on my server:
#php /usr/bin/php /home/admin/web/myweb.com/public_html/admin/autopost.php

it executes and everything is as it should be but it doesn’t work from crontab

Please help me!
Thanks a lot!

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You can’t use sudo for /usr/bin/php with the admin user

/usr/bin/php /home/admin/web/myweb.com/public_html/admin/autopost.php

Should work fine or

Create an crontab as the root user crontab -e -u root

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@eris Thank you for responding!
In method 3: I don’t use “sudo” as picture but it still won’t execute
with “crontab -e -u root” I’ve used in method 1 because I’m logged in as root do not execute

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Try adding it to a log file so you can see whats happening when it tries to run:

/usr/bin/php /home/admin/web/myweb.com/public_html/admin/autopost.php > /home/admin/web/myweb.com/public_html/admin/cron.log

Or something like that :slight_smile: I’ve had it before where the PHP version running under cron is different to what was running on the site, and it gave syntax errors

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In that case you might want to use /usr/bin/phpx.x

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