use cron without curl, wget, or lynx

By tophboogie on 26 May 2017 at 23:29 UTC

I cannot use wget, curl, or lynx to invoke cron because of a firewall that blocks the loopback (crontab on same server as apache). On Drupal 7 I could use this in my crontab:

$ /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/cron.php

But Drupal 8 does does not have this file and uses a long hash. How can I do it? Thanks!!

Comments

Of course, for small sites

John_B commented 27 May 2017 at 16:20

Of course, for small sites none of these are necessary, you just set cron to run at /admin/config/system/cron and rely on that. It works OK, even though you might not consider it best practice.

If you think that calling cron from a crontab on the server is best practice, you should be calling cron by setting up a crontab on the server which calls drush (instructions here). If you are trying to run Drupal on a server which does not support Drush, then you have bigger problems anyway.

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