By iMav on

I have setup the Feed Aggregator moodule but for some reason it is not updating the home page and the feeds itself after the specified time. I have gone to cpanel-> cron jobs and added 45 * * * * /usr/bin/wget -O - -q http:///drupal/cron.php I have also tried the poormanscron plugin, didn't work either.

How do I configure feed aggregator to automatically search for feed updates so that I don't have to manually run the cron job.

Guys please help me.

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tracey_mdbc commented

I can at least help you to get cron running but not aggregator as I can't get it to update even though my cron runs without error. every hour.
To get cron running under a cpanel set up It likes a hardwired machine address not a URL. You also have to tell it that you are going to run a php page .

So go to you cpanel home page and click on the file manager.
Select the option for going to you home directory and in the top right left hand corner you will see your base address it should look something like
/home/the_name_of_your_site

then navigate to your cron.php page it should be in the www or public_html directory. Copy the path

then go to your cron page and put in a command like the following:

45 * * * * php /home/the_name_of_your_site/www/cron.php

This WILL run the cron page without error but you will have to make sure the pge permissions are at least 554 or higher.

I hope that helps

If I ever find an answer to why the aggregator won't update even though all the other cron tasks run (there seem to be alot of us with this problem but I haven't found an answer yet) I'll be sure to come back here and put it down.

Guess what just checked my site after the last cron job ran and the aggregator is now updating so. doing what I suggested should work. I have mine updating on the hour and my cron.php permissions are set to 755.

Good luck :-)