Trigger cron.php from outside the system

[Alfons]

Hi Forum,

my client is trying out EspoCRM for his sales person. Since it is a trial, he wanted the CRM to run on his existing shared hosting.

The problem: The shared hosting only allows a cronjob to run every 2 hours.

Is there any way to call the cron.php with a service like https://cron-job.org/ ?
Maybe a customised cron.php in the public folder?

Thanks in advanced!

[Kyle]

A new host would be best but if this is not possible you could create a new end point that calls cron.php via a command line call just make sure you secure it somehow.

[esforim]

No. If his host restrict the time of the CRON-job then there no way to go about cheating it with external service. One cheat method that could potential work is, two a duplicate CRON job. Get one on even hours and one on odd hours... that might bypass the 2 hours restriction.

But this 'tips' is: don't try this at home kids.

[Alfons]

No. If his host restrict the time of the CRON-job then there no way to go about cheating it with external service. One cheat method that could potential work is, two a duplicate CRON job. Get one on even hours and one on odd hours... that might bypass the 2 hours restriction.

But this 'tips' is: don't try this at home kids.

Kiddo tried it at home

...and found out, the hosting even had a limit on the max amount of possible cronjobs. So the best I could come up with, is a cronjob every 15min:

00 0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22 * * * /usr/bin/php74 /usr/www/users/ ... /cron.php
15 0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22 * * * /usr/bin/php74 /usr/www/users/ ... /cron.php
30 0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22 * * * /usr/bin/php74 /usr/www/users/ ... /cron.php
45 0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22 * * * /usr/bin/php74 /usr/www/users/ ... /cron.php
00 1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21,23 * * * /usr/bin/php74 /usr/www/users/ ... /cron.php
15 1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21,23 * * * /usr/bin/php74 /usr/www/users/ ... /cron.php
30 1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21,23 * * * /usr/bin/php74 /usr/www/users/ ... /cron.php
45 1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21,23 * * * /usr/bin/php74 /usr/www/users/ ... /cron.php

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction

[esforim]

Might want to monitor the CRON for a few days to see if it behaving as expected. Otherwise although CRON might run but the job doesn't get done.

It like exercising by going for a jog in a game/VR.