Google Froogle Cron question

I believe I have the auto-update feature installed:

****Tips: To have this update and automatically upload product feed to Google Froogle Merchants, you will need to set up a Cron job via your host's control panel.
To run it as a cron job (at 5:0am like you wanted), put something in your crontab like the following:

0 5 * * * GET http://www.paradigmrockshirts.com/googlefroogle.php?feed=yes&upload=yes
or
0 5 * * * wget http://www.paradigmrockshirts.com/googlefroogle.php?feed=yes&upload=yes****

I thing something is wrong because, I get two emails each day with the following:
/bin/sh: line 1: /usr/bin/GET: Permission denied
/bin/sh: line 1: /usr/bin/wget: Permission denied
Anyone with information of how I can resolve this would be greatly appreciated. I have little information on this MOD but it was ONE of the reasons that I had selected Zencart...

:unsure:

Still no response to this post.... Anyone have the same problem? :yuck:

Paradigm81:

I believe I have the auto-update feature installed:

****Tips: To have this update and automatically upload product feed to Google Froogle Merchants, you will need to set up a Cron job via your host's control panel.
To run it as a cron job (at 5:0am like you wanted), put something in your crontab like the following:

0 5 * * * GET http://www.paradigmrockshirts.com/googlefroogle.php?feed=yes&upload=yes
or
0 5 * * * wget http://www.paradigmrockshirts.com/googlefroogle.php?feed=yes&upload=yes****

I thing something is wrong because, I get two emails each day with the following:
/bin/sh: line 1: /usr/bin/GET: Permission denied
/bin/sh: line 1: /usr/bin/wget: Permission denied
Anyone with information of how I can resolve this would be greatly appreciated. I have little information on this MOD but it was ONE of the reasons that I had selected Zencart...

:unsure:

I just stumbled upon this.
did you set up your ftp account on google base and then configure it in the zen cart admin?

On a similar note, I'm using GoDaddy for hosting. They don't allow running executables so I have to upload my file by hand. Anyone know what's involved in setting up a cron job on a seperate *nix machine to send the file to froogle via ftp? I'm pretty sure this can be done if the froogle.txt file is local to the *nix machine if you use commandline ftp. Anyone?

mafiasam:

I just stumbled upon this.
did you set up your ftp account on google base and then configure it in the zen cart admin?
Yes, the configurations are ok. I can do the manual creat and upload and it has no problem but the cron job is giving me permission denied. Anything else?

some hosts will lock these out

try using get and using the /actual/path/to/the/files

I am using sashbox as a host. Do you know if I would need to open a ticket with them to figure out what could be wrong?

Merlinpa1969:

try using get and using the /actual/path/to/the/files
It will not work. You have told:
Merlinpa1969:

some hosts will lock these out
Paradigm81:

/bin/sh: line 1: /usr/bin/GET: Permission denied
/bin/sh: line 1: /usr/bin/wget: Permission denied
Scripts GET/wget does not run - permission denied to access shell /bin/sh.

Two variants:

1. Use command line php.exe. It is impossible to start googlefroogle.php directly by php.exe. But it is possible to use intermediate loading "bootstrapping" script (php or perl - does not metter).
2. Start your googlefroogle.php using a cron job GET/wget on another server.

3. Try this one:
   0 5 * * * curl -s 'http://www.paradigmrockshirts.com/googlefroogle.php?feed=yes&upload=yes'

a_berezin:

3. Try this one:
   0 5 * * * curl -s 'http://www.paradigmrockshirts.com/googlefroogle.php?feed=yes&upload=yes'

I went in today and added this command as a third command in addition to the "WGET" and "get". If I was supposed to just run the "curl" by itself, I can try that after a day or two passes and I check the results of the CRON. :P

a_berezin:

3. Try this one:
   0 5 * * * curl -s 'http://www.paradigmrockshirts.com/googlefroogle.php?feed=yes&upload=yes'

I tried this one as well as the others listed in this thread. Couldn't get the others to work but this one seems to work - no error messages, but also no upload to Froogle. The manual upload works fine - i.e. clicking on the 'upload' link in the admin area.

Any ideas what's wrong?

Did anyone figure out a way to run a new googlefroogle xml file via cron job in cPanel?

This works for me, sending it every week.

Minute Hour Day Month Weekday
0 3 * * 6
wget https://www.yourdomain.com/googlefro...?feed=fy_uy_tp

Maybe also check the folder permissions.

Q: does the manual file creation work when done from the admin? Does the file get created with a current date? Have you successfully uploaded to google base manually?

Manually all work very well. the folder is 755. What else can I try in cPanel?