Wordpress scheduled operations

[till]

Another possible problem is described here:

http://www.bloghighlight.com/wordpre...ssed-schedule/

The cron in wordpress can fail if the system time is incorrect. Please check if your system time is ok e.g. with the date comand on the shell and also check in the php.ini file if the correct date.timezone is set there.

[Skyflash]

Please check that this value is not set in wp-config.php or that its set to false:
define('DISABLE_WP_CRON', true);

Ok, checked. The value was not present, so wp understand it is set to false by default. I've added it, and set to false

define('DISABLE_WP_CRON', false);

another problem can be the max php memory size or max execution time. You can try to increase them in the cgi php.ini file and then restart apache.

vi /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds
; http://php.net/max-execution-time
; Note: This directive is hardcoded to 0 for the CLI SAPI
max_execution_time = 30


; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (128MB)
; http://php.net/memory-limit
memory_limit = 128M

vi /etc/php5/cgi/php.ini

; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds
; http://php.net/max-execution-time
; Note: This directive is hardcoded to 0 for the CLI SAPI
max_execution_time = 30

; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (128MB)
; http://php.net/memory-limit
memory_limit = 128M

[till]

Please set max execution time to 300 and Memory Limit to 256M and restart apache. The Memory Limit required for Wordpress is 256M for Wordpress versions > 2.7

[Skyflash]

Originally Posted by till

Please set max execution time to 300 and Memory Limit to 256M and restart apache. The Memory Limit required for Wordpress is 256M for Wordpress versions > 2.7

Don't works
It only works if i manually call the cron script http://skyflashtest.biz/wp-cron.php

I set limits suggested by you
I set date.timezone, previously commented in cgi and php php.ini

[Date]
; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
; http://php.net/date.timezone
date.timezone = Europe/Rome

I don't know what i can do

[till]

Pleases set timezone like this:

date.timezone = "Europe/Rome"

Also you can try to search google on how to debug wordpress cron, e.g.:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cron-debug-log/


http://www.google.de/search?gcx=c&so...wordpress+cron

[Skyflash]

Pleases set timezone like this:

date.timezone = "Europe/Rome"

http://www.google.de/search?gcx=c&so...wordpress+cron

I've found this:

/wp-content/debug.log
[27-Oct-2011 09:40:05] PHP Warning:  fopen(http://skyflashtest.biz/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron): failed to open stream: Connection timed out in /var/www/clients/client1/web1/web/wp-includes/class-http.php on line 876

The timestamp in the log seems the UTC time, because my zone real time is +2 (9.40 UTC = 11.40 Europe/Rome)

The correct timezone is configured in WP

[till]

You should check if the correct time zone is configured in linux, this setting is normally done during initial installation of the base linux.

[Skyflash]

Originally Posted by till

You should check if the correct time zone is configured in linux, this setting is normally done during initial installation of the base linux.

root@server01:/var/www/clients/client1/web1/log# dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Current default time zone: 'Europe/Rome'
Local time is now: Thu Oct 27 11:49:08 CEST 2011.
Universal Time is now: Thu Oct 27 09:49:08 UTC 2011.

But i think the real problem is not the timezone, but the PHP Warning: fopen(http://skyflashtest.biz/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron): failed to open stream: Connection timed out in /var/www/clients/client1/web1/web/wp-includes/class-http.php on line 876

[Skyflash]

FOUND!

Seems a problem related to the address management in ISPConfig. Some website parts are locally resolved as www.websitename.biz and some other parts are resolved as /var/www/clients/client1/web1/web/.. so the wp-cron.php fails

Is described HERE

It seems the solution is add this directive into the wp-config.php:

define('ALTERNATE_WP_CRON', true);

I'm yet a little bit confused about the different path management (probably my dns mistake, but i think it is correct... i need to make a check) but this method is working

[till]

Some website parts are locally resolved as www.websitename.biz and some other parts are resolved as /var/www/clients/client1/web1/web/.. so the wp-cron.php fails

But the first thing is a url while the second one is a system path. So I dont think that they get mixed up by PHP. For example the resolving of a IP can never return a system path, it will return always the domain. According to the error, its most likely a domain config issue, either in the website settings or in dns.

How did you configure the domain in the website settings in ispconfig?

In the domain field there should be just "websitename.biz" without www and in the outo subdomain field you should select "auto subdomain: www" to reach the domain with and without www.

In your dns record of the zone websitename.biz, there must be a a-record for the zone itself and a a-record for the www subdomain.