Trouble with Codeigniter Cron Job

Question

I am haveing trouble with getting a cron job to work with codeigniter

I have used these instructions. https://www.codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/cli.html But it is not working

Here is what I have.

php /home4/markwolf/public_html/propalert.asia/index.php admin_notifications index

But it is not finding the right controller or the method, instead it is going to the "default_controler". Everything else I've tried gets a 404 not found error.

I've been pulling my hair out for two days trying to get this to work so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

EDIT

This works:

wget -q http://propalert.asia/admin_notifications

But the problem with this method is that Codeigniter's method for protecting the script by checking whether it is accessed by cli returns false.

I came across this post at CI's forum describing the same problem.

https://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/236475/#1055830

Unfortunately he never got an answer there either.

Answer 1

I finally found the solution:

/usr/bin/php-cli -q /home4/markwolf/public_html/propalert.asia/index.php admin_notifications index

the key is "php-cli" instead of "php".

But then there is a bug in the CI core that needs to be fixed. You can find the solution to that here:

https://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/227672/