I'm wondering if anyone has more details on how to schedule Joomla to be set to "Offline/Maintenance Mode" at a specific date and time. I found this post here on stack overflow and I'm wondering if anyone has been successful in either (1) implementing a custom plugin to add this functionality, or (2) via a script that sets the site into offline/maintenance mode and perhaps a cronjob to run the script at specific time or if (3) maybe there is an extension that already exists that simply adds this offline/maintenance mode scheduling feature.
Based on the previous post I linked to above I'm not sure if a plugin would work or how best to go about the script and cronjob technique. From my understanding based on the responses in the post, it sounded like the script and cronjob would be the only way to accomplish this. If someone can let me know if they were successful implementing this and how that would be great or any suggestions or direction on how to go about it would be helpful.
Using a plugin for such little would not worth it in my opinion.
I would rather use a little script like:
<?php
// Make sure this is only called through command line
if (php_sapi_name() !== "cli") die('Only command line');
// Replace by your joomla configuration file path
$configuration_file_path = '/var/www/joomla/configuration.php';
if (!empty($argv[1])) {
$offline = 1;
} else {
$offline = 0;
}
// Retrieve configuration file content
$configuration_content = file_get_contents($configuration_file_path);
// Replace the offline line by the calculated value
$configuration_content = preg_replace('/(.*)public \$offline =(.*)/m', '$1public $offline = \'' . $offline . '\';' , $configuration_content);
// Write back the configuration file
file_put_contents($configuration_file_path, $configuration_content);
This script can be called through the command line:
php offline.php 1 #to enable offline status
php offline.php 0 #to disable offline status
If you need to run it through a cronjob by editing /etc/crontab or add it in your hosting settings:
# Offline at 4AM each day
0 4 * * * www-data php /path/of/your/script/offline.php 1 >> /dev/null 2>&1
# Online at 4:05AM each day
5 4 * * * www-data php /path/of/your/script/offline.php 0 >> /dev/null 2>&1
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I put the Pyro4 configuration as this in the starting part of my code:
Pyro4.config.THREADPOOL_SIZE = 1
Pyro4.config.THREADPOOL_SIZE_MIN = 1
I check if I tried to run two client code at the same time, it will say ' rejected: no free workers, increase server threadpool size'. It looks like the setting is working, but when I open the console to check the pyro configuration using "python -m Pyro4.configuration", it returns:
THREADPOOL_SIZE = 40
THREADPOOL_SIZE_MIN = 4
Does someone know why?
When you run python -m Pyro4.configuration, it will simply print the default settings (influenced only by any environment variables you may have set). I'm not sure why you think that this should know about the settings you added in your own code.
My website is live and the order confirmation emails are neither being sent to the customer nor the admin. I am using Magento 1.9.3.2.
Please check whether Cron jobs are working or not, you can check easily by installing AOE SCHEDULER extension, make sure you have proper setting in System > Configuration > Advanced > System > Cron Also check whether you entered sender email in System > configuration> Sales> Sales email > Order emails.
Just to add to the above, out of the box the cronjobs are pre-configured in Magento, but you need to setup the actual job on your servers cron tab.
In SSH open the crontab;
crontab -e
Add this;
### MAGENTO CRON ###
*/1 * * * * cd /path/to/magento/ && sh cron.sh
Replaced /path/to/magento with the actual path your installation.
Magento allow 2 way to send email like below :
1) Using cron
2) Avoid cron
If you want without cron then use below change:
Open your order.php file at - app/code/core/Mage/Sales/Model/Order.php
And change :
//$mailer->setQueue($emailQueue)->send(); **// Comment this code.**
to:
$mailer-> send();
Note : Above change is not standard way in magneto so please implement file override way.
Go to : app/design/frontend/base/default/template/checkout/success.phtml:
Add following code on the top of the file code :
$order = Mage::getModel('sales/order');
$incrementId = Mage::getSingleton('checkout/session')->getLastRealOrderId();
$order->loadByIncrementId($incrementId);
try
{
$order->sendNewOrderEmail();
}
catch (Exception $ex)
{
echo "Email Not Sent...";
}
$customer = Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->getCustomer();
$email = $customer->getEmail();
I have a job which I want cron to run at given interval , this removes some old entries from my db and then removes the files that were uploaded with the db entry.
If I run the task from the terminal it works fine, (removing both db entries and the files uploaded). But when I leave the task to cron, it does remove the entries in the db , but it doesn’t remove the uploaded folders in my public directory.
the code that removes the files looks like this
$machtiging = File::files('icec/'.$icecconsult->accesstoken.' /machtiging');
if(count($machtiging) > 0){
File::deleteDirectory(public_path() . '/icec/'.$icecconsult->accesstoken);
}
so it looks if there there, if so , delete them , but this just doesn’t work , ive tried putting the cron job run as root , www-data , and my user , all with same result . files and folder permission I have set them to 777 to be sure, but this doesn’t seem to be the problem.
Ive also tried adding shell=/bin/bash but that didnt do the trick either
Any help on solving this issue would be much appreciated
Update
the crobline looks like this
* * * * * /bin/bash /home/ice/verlopenicec.sh >> /tmp/output 2&>1
also tried
* * * * * /home/ice/verlopenicec.sh >> /tmp/output 2&>1
and
* * * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/wemedic/artisan verwijder-verlopen-icec-consult 1>> /dev/null 2>&1
All seem to run . its just it doesnt delete or move the directory it needs to
trying to get some debug data , but nothing is showing up
the verlopenicec.sh script itself looks is just a say reference to the original script that laravel should run . thouth might be handy to make a script to test why laravel aint deleting the directory.
script looks like this
#!/bin/bash
SHELL=/bin/bash
USER=ice
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games
/usr/bin/php /var/www/wemedic/artisan verwijder-verlopen-icec-consult
wich runs a laravel command that looks like this
$icecconsult = Icecconsult::where('id', '=', $consult_id)->firstOrFail();
$icecconsult->expire = Carbon::now();
$icecconsult->status = 'Gesloten';
$icecconsult->save();
$icec = Icec::where('id', '=', $icecconsult->icec_id)->firstOrFail();
$icec->delete();
$machtiging = File::files('icec/'.$icecconsult->accesstoken.'/machtiging');
if(count($machtiging) > 0){
// File::deleteDirectory(public_path() . '/icec/'.$icecconsult->accesstoken);
$move = 'mv /var/www/wemedic/public/icec/'.$icecconsult->accesstoken.' /tmp' ;
shell_exec('SHELL=/bin/bash');
shell_exec('PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games');
shell_exec($move);
// File::deleteDirectory('/var/www/wemedic/public/icec/'.$icecconsult->accesstoken);
}
return;
(ive commented out the delete function and tried to move it to the temp directory , but having the same result with moving or deleting. both work If I directly run it , but not when cron runs it . Cron does run the task , cause I can see it beeing fired in the /var/log/syslog and the database entru does get changed )
Ive tryied deleting , then moving it to the temp folder, both work if I run them directly , but none work when I leave it to cron/ laravel cron scheduler
If also tried to get a response (tru/false ) from the delete function, but when I try to save that to the db to see it , the function seems to not execute.
dd($machtiging) returns an array like below, showing the files in the folder , after knowing there are files in the folder, it should go ahead and delete the complete folder allong with any files/sub directories located in it
array:1 [▼
0 => "icec/a89ce4c9010e0a745308b29782b5eeae/machtiging/machtiging.pdf"
]
Thanks for you help
Try with this crontab :
*/1 * * * * ice /bin/bash /home/ice/verlopenicec.sh >> /tmp/output.log
Change your bash script to :
#!/bin/bash
moment="`/bin/date +%y_%m_%d`"
echo "--- The script has been executed on $moment ---"
/usr/bin/php /var/www/wemedic/artisan verwijder-verlopen-icec-consult
It should work better, but if not, could you paste here the content of your generated /tmp/output.log ?
I am running a web-application (MyCronTest) on a Glassfish-Server in a Jelastic-Environment. This web-application contains the servlet (/test), that I would like to call regularly with a cron-job.
So I followed this tutorial from the Jelastic docs, but they use Tomcat instead of Glassfish and I am not so sure about the paths and where to put which file...and now I am lost ;)
the servlet
When calling the servlet directly in my browser it prints out the following line to System.out:
test executed at 05/03/2014 15:00
the bash file to execute
I created a bash script called myCronJob.sh and put it in the directory glassfish3/temp:
#!/bin/bash
curl http://myGlassfish.jelastic.dogado.eu/MyCronTest/test;
I tested it of course, it is executable and it works (at least when I execute it on my computer).
the cron event scheduler
according to the tutorial there is a file /cron/tomcat I need to edit. Well, I found a /cron/glassfish which (I am guessing) should do the same.
# IMPORTANT NOTE!
# Please make sure there is a blank line after the last cronjob entry.
*/1 * * * * /opt/glassfish3/temp/myCronJob.sh
I added an empty line at the end, as they told me to. I even tried it with
*/1 * * * * /bin/bash /opt/glassfish3/temp/myCronJob.sh
as they suggested in the tutorial. But still no output. No error.. just empty log files.
Does anyone have an idea what I am missing here? Am I doing something wrong?
Solution / Edit
Thanks to Damien's Answer I was finally able to narrow down my problem. It was actually the line in my bash-script that caused the problem:
curl http://myGlassfish.jelastic.dogado.eu/MyCronTest/test;
should have been
curl http://localhost/MyCronTest/test;
since I was blocked by a firewall. Lucky for me, my Glassfish is running on the same machine / environment, so localhost works.
Everything else is correct.
Well, I found a /cron/glassfish which (I am guessing) should do the same.
Correct.
But still no output. No error.. just empty log files.
Assuming that you have correctly uploaded your file to /opt/glassfish3/temp/myCronJob.sh, I recommend that you try to direct the cron output to your own log file or email it to you:
MAILTO="your#email.com"
*/1 * * * * /opt/glassfish3/temp/myCronJob.sh 2&1 > /opt/glassfish3/glassfish/nodes/localhost-domain1/instance-168458181/logs/cronoutput.log
Note that the email may be filtered by your spam filters due to things like missing PTR (reverse DNS) and so on - but it's ok to use like this for testing/debugging purposes (just don't rely on these mails getting through for anything critical!)
If these tips don't help you, then I recommend contacting your hosting provider's support team to verify the .sh file's permissions, output when executed manually, and the cron log file contents (all of which only they can help you with).
I am trying to learn how to do my first cron job using CodeIgniter. In the past, it seemed the only way to do this with CI was to use the wget command instead of php.
The CodeIgniter User Guide, however, says that now you can do this from the command line, for example by running:
$ cd /path/to/project;
$ php index.php controller method
This works great using Terminal on my local setup. But when I use a similar command in the cron section of cPanel on my shared hosting, the task just returns the contents of index.php.
I'm not entirely sure what cPanel does with this command, so unsure as to whether it's using the command line at all.
Could someone explain how I might be able to set up a cron job on shared hosting using CodeIgniter please?
Here is the example code from the CodeIgniter user guide:
tools.php
public function message($to = 'World')
{
echo "Hello {$to}!".PHP_EOL;
}
}
?>
It's going to depend on your host. Cron jobs could really screw stuff up if you're not careful, so a lot of shared hosts don't allow it. You probably need to be on some virtual container (like a VPS, virtuozo, etc.) to do this. This isn't a CodeIgniter issue, but a hosting provider issue. Call them first.
We worked around this exact issue as follows:
Set up a normal php file that is scheduled by cron. Nothing to do with codeigniter yet
Inside it, you can make an fsocket or curl request to perform your regular CodeIgniter call as you do from the web.
Here's an example (say, cron.php)
#!/usr/local/bin/php.cli
<?php
DEFINE('CRON_CALL_URL','https://my_server/'); //
DEFINE('CRON_HTTPS_PORT', 443); // port to use during fsocket connetion
DEFINE('CRON_SSL_PREFIX', 'ssl://'); // prefix to be used on the url when using ssl
$current_time = now();
$md5_hash = md5('somevalue'.$current_time);
$url = CRON_CALL_URL.'MYCTRL/MYMETHOD';
$parts=parse_url($url);
//
$parts['query']='md5_hash='.$md5_hash.'&time='.$current_time;
$fp = fsockopen(CRON_SSL_PREFIX.$parts['host'],
isset($parts['port'])?$parts['port']:CRON_HTTPS_PORT,
$errno, $errstr, 30);
if (!$fp) {
} else {
if (!array_key_exists('query', $parts)) $parts['query'] = null;
$out = "POST ".$parts['path']." HTTP/1.1\r\n";
$out.= "Host: ".$parts['host']."\r\n";
$out.= "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n";
$out.= "Content-Length: ".strlen($parts['query'])."\r\n";
$out.= "Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";
if (isset($parts['query'])) $out.= $parts['query'];
fwrite($fp, $out);
fclose($fp);
}
}
?>
NOTE: Make sure that in your MYCTRL/MYMETHOD function you have
ignore_user_abort(true);
that way when you fsocket connection is closed, your script will still run to the end.
We actually have a bunch of these fsockets for various reasons. If you need to make sure that the call to that controller/method came from the cron script, you need to pass some additional hash values so that only cron and the script know it. Once the script is called it has access to any codeigniter functions. Works like a charm.
I've set up 100s of CI cronjob on shared hosting like this: create a short php script which calls the CI controller as if it was a webbrowser.
So, script.php contains this:
script #! /usr/local/bin/php -f /home/example/public_html/script.php
<?php
get_get_contents('http:example.com/cronjob/');
?>
Then set your cronjob in cPanel to call script.php
When it runs Script.php will call the Codeigniter Cronjob controller. There you have the entire CI framework at your disposal.
If you are going to call it like a web browser, why not replace the cronjob
command with:
wget http://example.com/cronjob/
instead of creating something new or simply
curl --suppress http://example.com/cronjob/`