How to configure cron jobs for cakephp site on an Amazon AWS (bitnami stack)?

Question

I want to execute a shell script in every minute. I used this command

* * * * * cd /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs/sitename/app && Console/cake Sendnotification

Where Sendnotification is the shell name and sitename site folder name.

Please let me know. I have been trying to fix this since from last 10 hours.

Answer 1

This is because PHP installed in non-standard path. You will need to edit the Console/cake bake shell script to include the path to PHP executable.

Since you are using Bitnami , you can add the following line to the shell script:

export PATH=/opt/bitnami/php/bin:$PATH

So your Console/cake file should look like this:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
export PATH=/opt/bitnami/php/bin:$PATH

################################################################################
#
# Bake is a shell script for running CakePHP bake script
#
# CakePHP(tm) :  Rapid Development Framework (http://cakephp.org)
# Copyright (c) Cake Software Foundation, Inc. (http://cakefoundation.org)

...

(This works for me on CakePHP 2.x)

Bonus : You can edit your cron task to log the console output to a file for debugging:

* * * * * cd /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs/sitename/app && Console/cake Sendnotification  > /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs/sitename/logs/Sendnotification_`date +\%Y\%m\%d`-cron.log 2>&1