Centos PHP-FPM Cron

Question

I have nginx and php-fpm installed on my Centos vps box. I need to add a cronjob to execute a script every 10 minutes. I tried crontab -e with the following in it:

*/10 * * * * /path/to/script/script.php

However, it's not executing properly. It says there is errors in the php code and there isn't

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Error when attempting to install php-cli

--> Running transaction check
---> Package php-cli.i386 0:5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 for package: php-cli
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
php-cli-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 from base has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 is needed by package php-cli-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 (base)
Error: Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 is needed by package php-cli-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 (base)

Answer 1

php-fpm is fastcgi only.. install the php-cli package also

edit

You have to enable the repo to install

yum -y --enablerepo=webtatic install php-cli

Answer 2

Without seeing the errors it's hard to know, but I'd say it's one of:

• The script is executable but missing #!/usr/bin/php at the beginning.
• The script has #!/usr/bin/php but is not executeable.
• The script is not executable and doesn't have #!/usr/bin/php so crond doesn't know how to properly handle it.

If you change your cron to:

*/10 * * * * /usr/bin/php /path/to/script/script.php

Does it work?