Using Cron Jobs to Rebuild Indexes for Layered Navigation

[jmthd]

I am using PS 1.4.9, trying to set cron jobs to rebuild the price, URL and attribute indexes nightly, per the layered navigation module's configuration page:

You can set a cron job that will rebuild price index using the following URL:

https://www.MYDOMAIN...35049178&full=1

You can set a cron job that will rebuild URL index using the following URL:

https://www.MYDOMAIN...9178&truncate=1

You can set a cron job that will rebuild attribute index using the following URL:

https://www.MYDOMAIN...oken=3b35049178

 

I have tried entering each of these URLs in (separately) in the command field (after selecting one of the "Common Settings" for scheduling) at my cPanel's cron jobs page. This fails every time.

 

Am I doing something wrong? (I have limited experience with cron jobs, but I have made them work before...).

 

Thanks for any guidance

Edited June 25, 2013 by jmthd (see edit history)

[El Patron]

'It fails everytime' is to vague.

 

best to copy and paste the command and output here to the forum.

[jmthd]

I entered this URL in the Command field:

https://www.MYDOMAIN.com/modules/blocklayered/blocklayered-price-indexer.php?token=3b35049178&full=1'>https://www.MYDOMAIN.com/modules/blocklayered/blocklayered-price-indexer.php?token=3b35049178&full=1

 

The automatically-generated email I get from the Cron Daemon reads:

/usr/local/cpanel/bin/jailshell: https://www.MYDOMAIN.com/modules/blocklayered/blocklayered-price-indexer.php?token=3b35049178: No such file or directory

Edited June 25, 2013 by jmthd (see edit history)

[El Patron]

I entered this URL in the Command field:

https://www.MYDOMAIN...35049178&full=1

 

The automatically-generated email I get from the Cron Daemon reads:

/usr/local/cpanel/bin/jailshell: https://www.MYDOMAIN...oken=3b35049178: No such file or directory

 

you may have better luck contacting your hosting provider as they can help you with correct path to your domain....

[jmthd]

I get it now. All I had to do was compare the path used in that command to another command I had been successfully using. Duh.

 

Thanks for the clue El Patron.

[jmthd]

Now my command looks like this:

/usr/bin/php -q /home/corework/public_html/modules/blocklayered/blocklayered-price-indexer.php?token=3b35049178&full=1

 

And the email reads:

No input file specified

Edited June 25, 2013 by jmthd (see edit history)

[jmthd]

I found a tip on another forum that recommended replacing the "?" with a space. This produces and email that reads:

1

 

Is that success? I tried for a similar job and got the output:

-1

 

What does that mean?

[El Patron]

for PS, a '1' typically means true, i.e. return 1 = positive, 0 = false.

 

no knowing what the 'similar' job is, but in some languages a -1 is false.