Cron Job not running

Thanks for reaching out. This is kind of out scope for our support but I thought I’d try to point you in the correct direction.

I checked the URL and it doesn’t appear that /script.php is available. It returns a 404 error so any cron that calls that specific URL wouldn’t be able to run it.

Was there any reason why support didn’t use this URL instead of creating a script to run it.
https://davidsplace.org/wp-cron.php

This is a guide from our friends at Kinsta that show how to setup a manual cron job.
https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/disable-wp-cron/ There are a few more steps to setting it up so you’d want to walk through them to make sure the changes to wp-config, etc are done too.

You could use this command to set a cron up which is what I’ve seen most people use.
wget -q -O - https://davidsplace.org/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron >/dev/null 2>&1
That’s not to say that you can’t execute crons and scripts with the lynx browser, but when I looked there seemed to be a fair amount of people that had trouble with that. And if the script you are trying to call isn’t there, you’ll certainly have problems running it.
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Hope this helps.

Tim

• This reply was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by WFSupport.
• This reply was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by WFSupport.

A BIG thanks to you. Worked fine. I’ve been struggling with this for months and months. cron stuff is greek to me, and I am very appreciative. I posted here because it was affecting Wordfence and I felt you would have a good suggestion – which you did. Thanks again.
david

No problem ??