aMember Cron Job Setting

I just spent several hours trying to resolve a CRON JOB command code for aMember in my server. Nothing seemed to be working. But finally! Yes – It works.

If you are setting up aMember’s advanced settings and are using a server with PHP5 and are not getting your Cron Jobs done, this might also work for you…

/web/cgi-bin/php5 “/$HOME/html/(sitename)/amember/cron.php”

Let me explain a little.

Where it say $HOME, that’s where you put the full path of your hosting server.
For example, it might be something like “/home/content/somethingelse/html…”

So, do not put the word HOME with a dollar sign before it.

You should have a full path listed in your aMember admin, by the way.

Once you have the full path (up to and including your /amember/ directory), you ‘ll basically add one thing before it:

/web/cgi-bin/php5

and end it with:

/cron.php”

IMPORTANT: I put this up here in case you’ve tried other solutions and they are not working.
Some hosting providers require that you include the 5 after PHP, some don’t.

I searched and tried all kinds of variations on this Cron Command before I finally got this one to work.

It’s very important that this is set up correctly in your aMember site.

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