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  1. Dhavid Claudius Gunawan

    Dhavid Claudius Gunawan New Member

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    Hello,

    For last few days, I am using Wordpress that are created from centminmod script.
    So far, all went great and smooth, but I just notice 1 problem.

    My regular backup files are not updated, after some investigation I notice that the cron job for the last few days are not working. I try to do some digging, and found out that CentMinMod are disabling WP Cron.

    I already uncomment the WP Cron disable on WP-Config files, but it seems it still not working.

    Could anyone help me to get some help to solve this problem?


    Thanks.
     
  2. eva2000

    eva2000 Administrator Staff Member

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    centmin.sh menu option 22 auto installed Wordpress outlined at Wordpress Nginx Auto Installer (WP Super Cache) disables wp-cron and uses system cronjob via crond, so ensure crond servcie is running on your server and check /var/log/cron for the cronjob entry

    so output for
    Code:
    crontab -l
    
    would have something like which runs every 15 minutes
    Code:
    */15 * * * * sleep 119s ; wget -O - -q -t 1 http://newdomain2.com/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron=1 > /dev/null 2>&1
    and /var/log/cron log would have entries for it
    Code:
    tail -20 /var/log/cron
     
  3. Dhavid Claudius Gunawan

    Dhavid Claudius Gunawan New Member

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    Hello,

    Thanks for the reply.
    I am using BackWPUp plugin that backup my files on DropBox.
    It is using WP Cron to get the job done.

    May I ask, how can I revert back to the old WP Cron.
    Disabling auto update on system cron job I think won't be a problem since I usually manage my update manually.

    Once again, thanks for the help and have a nice weekend
     
  4. eva2000

    eva2000 Administrator Staff Member

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    you should be able to edit wp-config.php and set
    Code:
    define('DISABLE_WP_CRON', false;
    then using command below to invoke nano linux text editor remove the cronjob line ONLY and ctrl+x and save to reinitialise the cron scheduling
    Code:
    crontab -e
    then restart php-fpm to ensure zend opcache cache is cleared for wp-config.php
    Code:
    fpmrestart
     
  5. eva2000

    eva2000 Administrator Staff Member

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    never used your plugin but from WordPress › BackWPup Free - WordPress Backup Plugin « WordPress Plugins

     
  6. Dhavid Claudius Gunawan

    Dhavid Claudius Gunawan New Member

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    Many thanks for the help.

    Also I wonder if you ever try Vault Press? Would you think it would work fine, considering the WP cron are disabled? I am thinking about multiple backup, since my website is down last week. And since the WP cron aren't working, my backup are a few days left behind, so I have to re write all of the article which is quite a bummer.
     
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