My hosting company infrom me that they do not allow loopback connections, which are required to run the following cron task on my server. I need to run a cron task for this plugin:
http://tribulant.com/plugins/view/1/wordpress-newsletter-plugin
wget -O /dev/null "http://localhost/?wpmlmethod=docron&auth=XXXXXXXX" > /dev/null 2>&1
They provide the following code which I have adapted for my hosting (path to wget being /usr/bin/php I blieve).
I’ve also tried letting wp-cron.php do the job itself, and it fails, I’ve also tried making a simple server cron job that manually fires wp-cron.php, this worked once and didn’t fire again. I’m now testing the latter with a longer schedule.
Ahhh! Thanks.
You could just try the alternate WP Cron method, which doesn’t require loopbacks.
Add
define('ALTERNATE_WP_CRON', true);to your wp-config.php file.