Crontab Outside Web Root
I am trying to get a PHP script running on the crontab where the PHP document is located outside of the web root, this presents a problem because PHP is installed as an Apache module and I dont have access to re-install on this server.
I have searched endlessly for ideas about how to get this running but all I am running into is the usual suspects: CGI Install Call Like a Command Line:
Fetch
wget
lynx
The last three all use http:// protocol as far as I have figured out. So does anyone know of any other software I can use to call from the crontab to run this script.
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