ipb cron jobs using wget?

[Apfelstrudel]

Hello,

we have a managed server with php 5.6 and php7 available. That's perfect. But today we found out that crons can only be executed with php 5.5 max. We contacted our provider regarding this issue and they told me that using CLI only php5.5 is possible and they have no plans for the near future (or maybe they don't tell me them yet).

They suggested to use wget for executing crons.

Is there any way to start the ipb tasks using wget?

I'm just asking because .14 will be the last release supporting php5.5.

[Nathan Explosion]

"Use Web Service" instead of "Use Cron" and there is your URL to call.

 

[Apfelstrudel]

... means I can wget the url shown there?

[Nathan Explosion]

Yes.

[Apfelstrudel]

Thanks. Final question: Do I have to activate "web service" as well?

BTW: Does anybody have the correct wget call? Which parameters do you suggest for using wget?

[Nathan Explosion]

2 hours ago, Apfelstrudel said:

Thanks. Final question: Do I have to activate "web service" as well?

BTW: Does anybody have the correct wget call? Which parameters do you suggest for using wget?

Yes, you need to set the option to "Use Web Service" in the ACP.

And the command is simply wget theurlthatisprovidedintheACP