CronJobs Permission Denied

Question

Okay, so I made a cronjob to run every two minutes and set it up to send me an email. Well, this is the cronjob. /home/sites/psychowars.com/public_html/cronjobs/energy_minute.php This is the email I receive.. nice:

/home/sites/psychowars.com/public_html/cronjobs/energy_minute.php: Permission denied

Well, this is the PHP file that's suppose to run.

<?php
require '../stats/users_stats.php';
    {
    if ($energy < $max_energy) {
    $sql = "UPDATE users SET energy=(energy + 1) WHERE id='".$id."'";
    $res = mysql_query($sql);
    }
    }
?>  

Every 2 minutes the user should recieve 1 energy if it's less than their max energy. Any solutions on what's wrong?

Answer 1

try to set $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] manually at the start of the script and don't use relative paths for cronjob scripts:

$_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] = "/home/sites/psychowars.com/public_html";
require $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"].'/stats/users_stats.php';
if ($energy < $max_energy) {
  $sql = "UPDATE users SET energy=(energy + 1) WHERE id='".$id."'";
  $res = mysql_query($sql);
}

Answer 2

You have answer here

$_SERVER variable is not set from cron job.

Answer 3

If is still not working you can outsource your cronjob with www.guardiano.pm and call an http post or get request to yoursite.com/users_stats.php so you don't need to care about cronjobs. If the only thing that you need is that IMHO you can avoid that