[Phpwm] PHP with Cron

[pete graham]

Hi David,

Yes I should have mentioned I had to provide a http proxy so lynx could get
the start file from the lynx website.

Do you know how I can change lynx so it resolves the provided IP locally?

Pete

On 18/05/06, David Goodwin <david at codepoets.co.uk> wrote:
>
> pete graham wrote:
> > I am setting up some PHP scripts that will be called by cron. Since I
> > have PHP installed as an apache module I was planning to use lynx to
> > load the PHP file.
> >
>
> Do you have a $http_proxy set?
>
> > I am testing this on my dev server first, however I have found that Lynx
> > seems to ignore the Virtual Hosts that I have specified in /etc/hosts
> > file, and therefore cannot connect to any of the sites on my Dev server.
>
> It's always respected ip/hostname mapping from /etc/hosts before for me.
>
> > Does anyone know how this can be fixed or an alternative method that I
> > can use?
>
> I think you're probably using a http proxy somewhere, which is doing the
>   dns lookup, instead of your local machine.
>
> >
> > In case anyone is interested I am checking that the client IP is the
> > same as the server IP in the files for security reasons, so only the
> > server itself can call the cron pages.
>
> You could just use a .htaccess (or similar) in Apache to restrict access
> to a cron.php file based on IP address etc.
>
> David.
>
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> David Goodwin
>
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