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  • Alfons
    Junior Member
    • Dec 2021
    • 2
    #1

    Trigger cron.php from outside the system

    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!
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    • Kyle
      Senior Member
      • May 2020
      • 143
      #2
      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.

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        • esforim
          Active Community Member
          • Jan 2020
          • 2204
          #3
          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.

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            • Alfons
              Junior Member
              • Dec 2021
              • 2
              #4
              Originally posted by espcrm
              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

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                • esforim
                  #4.1
                  esforim commented
                  12-06-2021, 08:18 AM
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                  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.
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