automatic cronjob

[pay12]

how can the cronjob via an external provider cronjob start automatically approved?

[XML-Sitemaps Support]

Hello,

the cron job should be setup in hosting control panel. In case if you want to execute generator via URL from external site you can use "domain.com/generator/index.php?op=crawlproc" link (although password protection in sitemap generator config should be disabled for that).

[pay12]

so:

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[XML-Sitemaps Support]

No, just [ External links are visible to logged in users only ]

[kleinholz]

What about adding a feature to offer a way to call cronjob-script from external-cronjob-service AND having password-protection enabled? I dont think its smart to switch off pw-protection globally and permanent... just to run the cronjobs...

[XML-Sitemaps Support]

That is a good point.
You can manually create another php file in generator folder with the filename of your choice (so noone else knows it) with content:

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<?php
$op = $_REQUEST['op'] = 'crawlproc';
$_REQUEST['bg'] = $_REQUEST['resume'] = true;
include './index.php';
?>

and then use it for external web based cron service.

[kleinholz]

Thanks! I will try this... I just added the external cronjob and this script!

[xipe]

Hi,

I'm very happy that the new version of PHP Sitemap Generator works on my webspace (Mijndomein.nl)
It crashed with the previous version, but now it works fine.

Now I would like to run it from a remote cron using wget.
How can I do this? I tried to run runcrawl.php in a cron, but it is protected, I guess.

Any help would be appreciated very much.

Cheers,
Robert

[XML-Sitemaps Support]

Hello,

you can create a new file for that as described above: https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/forum/index.php/topic,2274.msg10298.html#msg10298

[xipe]

Dear Oleg,

Thank you very much for the solution to run the remote cron.

I have one more problem left: the urllist.txt is written to the data folder instead of the root of my website.
In my config file I have this:

'xs_sm_text_filename' => '/storage/mijndomein/users/061775/public/sites/www.onestop-travel.nl/urllist.txt',
'xs_sm_text_url' => '[ External links are visible to forum administrators only ]

Still it is written to the wrong folder. How can I solve this?

Best regards,
Robert

[XML-Sitemaps Support]

Hello,

if you are running sitemap generator 3.0, you should change configuration in generator/data/generator.conf file:
   <option name="xs_sm_text_filename">........</option>
   <option name="xs_sm_text_url">.....</option>

[xipe]

Dear Oleg,

Thank you very much for this information.
It works fine now!
Solution was setting the xs_sm_text_filename value.

I have a question about the 'old' config.inc.php
Do I still need this file, or is generator.conf containing all the info?
Like the loogin information, I wonder where this is stored now.

Best regards,
Robert