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if you find yourself wondering why the heck the jobberBase cron job doesn’t work on a linux hosting, you are not alone! i’ve struggled with this cron job issue for a while now. well, finally i was able to sit down and try to figure out how to work around this bug. yes i say it’s a bug coz if i use an online cron job service, the php file executes just fine but if it’s run through the cron job on a linux hosting, it just flatly fails.

the solution is in the config.php file. i would recommend creating another instance of the config.php (i renamed mine to config2.php) and look for the lines below.

replace this

die('[config.php] Cannot determine APP_MAIN_DIR, please set manual and comment this line');

with this:

//die('[config.php] Cannot determine APP_MAIN_DIR, please set manual and comment this line');
$app_main_dir = rtrim(dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']),'/\\');	
define('_APP_MAIN_DIR', $app_main_dir);

then replace this:

die('[config.php] Cannot determine BASE_URL, please set manual and comment this line');

with this:

//die('[config.php] Cannot determine BASE_URL, please set manual and comment this line');
define ('BASE_URL', 'http://yourwebsitename.com/');

now how’s that for a workaround?