How to set up cron for feedsync

Hi Merv,

Thanks for that link, I see how I’m meant to add the FeedSync processor as a cron job now, however I’ve tried setting it up using the command provided on my ‘help’ page:

/usr/bin/php -q /var/www/vhosts/trimson.com.au/httpdocs/trimson.com.au/XML/feedsync/lib/feedsync-processor.php

But my email notification from the cron job is saying that /usr/bin/php does not exist. Am I supposed to change this to something more suited to my server? Where should this initial path be pointed?

Thanks,
Grace

Hey Merv,

They came back to me and said that that was the correct path for the server. Which is totally unhelpful of them because they haven’t given me a reason why it wouldn’t be working…

I might press them for more info.

Also, they weren’t able to help me with my other query because it was out of the realm of their support. I am also trying to set up the trigger/processing crons for each of our imports. I copied the commands generated by the WP All Imports plugin for each one. I want the imports to happen every 2 hours between 10am and 6pm.

This is what I set for one of the imports (I’ve also attached a screen grab of all my scheduled tasks in the Plesk panel):

Hours: 10-18/2
Minutes: 0
wget -q -O /dev/null http://trimson.com.au/wp-cron.php?import_key=DSRGPI3uTpZ&import_id=5&action=trigger

Minutes: */2
wget -q -O /dev/null http://trimson.com.au/wp-cron.php?import_key=DSRGPI3uTpZ&import_id=5&action=processing

Firstly, I’m not receiving a notification of anything happening at those hours, so I’m guessing something’s wrong there (but I think I’ll just fix this by just changing it to every two hours all day).

Secondly, and most importantly, I believe the ‘processing’ script crashed the site. I think it literally goes every 2 minutes forever. How do I make it only fire when triggered??

Cheers,
Grace

Hey Merv,

I’ve still had absolutely no luck with this. I’ve hit a brick wall. The web hosts came back and said that the path could in fact be /usr/local/bin and I checked the phpinfo.php file and it does exist. So I’ve tried it with that, but still I get the same error, that the path doesn’t exist.

I noticed in your screen grab that you’re also firing the wp-cron.php file. Is that necessary? What does that do?

Also, I finally started to get a response from the other import/processing scheduled tasks, because I removed the ‘dev/null’ in order to receive an email about the process.

However, I seem to be getting an email from the processing task every 2 minutes, and it doesn’t stop. Is that correct? They’re never meant to stop?

I wish I understood how this cron/scheduling works.

Thanks,
Grace

Hey Merv,

Yeah, I put my email in purposefully to determine whether anything was being triggered at all. There’s a whole lot of 0 bytes happening in the emails I get. Even when I’ve updated the xml file manually through FeedSync, it doesn’t seem to import anything.

I haven’t tried the Beta version of FeedSync, no. It looks as though for some reason FeedSync is not in my downloads list. I think this is because we bought it without creating an account? Then we created the account afterwards to purchase the rest.

Any chance you could hook it up to our account?

Cheers,
Grace

Yep, the WP All Import scripts are all set as scheduled tasks in my Plesk panel (as you can see in my screen grab a few posts back).

Sorry, I’m not referring to the FeedSync processing task returning 0 bytes (because I’ve temporarily given up on the FeedSync cron thanks to the path issue).

Right now I’m just trying to make sure the trigger/processing WP All Import tasks are going to work once the FeedSync task is operating correctly.

I’ve been testing each trigger/processing script out by making sure I get a notification when they’re happening. But even if the feedsync-current.xml file has new properties to import, none of the triggers/processors seem to import anything.

Does that make sense?