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Movable Type: Run Periodic Tasks on GoDaddy Hosting

By Merv on Nov 26, 2009

We experienced an issue running periodic tasks on GoDaddy's servers. "Periodic Tasks" is a tool in the MT library that allows many functions to be run in the background such as publishing entries in the future (Write Entry => Publishing => Status => Scheduled). Here's what we found:

The GoDaddy cron setup wizard requires a full path address to run-periodic-tasks but the resulting cron command is: 
cd  /home/content/d/a/a/userid/html/cgi-bin/; ./tools/run-periodic-tasks
Executing the "out of the box" run-periodic-tasks tool from the cron job produced a module addressing error. The code in run-periodic-tasks causing the error was: 
use lib 'lib', '../lib'; (go up one level to find the lib directory)
A quick change to the full path of the MT lib directory: 
use lib '/home/content/d/a/a/userid/html/cgi/mt/lib/';
got it to work fine.

The "out of the box" run-periodic-tasks code works fine in the icdSOFT hosting environment. The cron job setup is
/home/userid/www/www/cgi-bin/mt/tools/run-periodic-tasks
also using the full path to the task and referencing ../lib works fine.
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1 response to “Movable Type: Run Periodic Tasks on GoDaddy Hosting”

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    gabrielvfreeman
    May 12, 2015 11:08 AM | | Reply

    It's really confusion!!

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