hook_url_inbound_alter() to redirect to canonical urls.admin/reports/status page and copy the cron url into a crontab task.admin/config/system/site-information page and set the Default front page to something other than node.cron.php calls drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_FULL)drupal_bootstrap() calls _drupal_bootstrap_full()_drupal_bootstrap_full() calls drupal_path_initialize()drupal_path_initialize() calls drupal_get_normal_path(variable_get('site_frontpage', 'node'))drupal_get_normal_path() invokes hook_url_inbound_alterdrupal_goto() to redirect to the <front>Patched the redirect module to work around the core bug in #905914-26: Merge global redirect functions into Redirect module
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Comment #1
franzAlthough a similar solution can be applied to core, I'm wondering if it makes sense. Whether a module implements hook_url_inbound_alter() is not really the issue. The issue is with any module implementing drupal_goto() anywhere in code where cron is going to pull. Could be elsewhere, like the nodeapi or hook_init(). I think this is the responsibility of the implementing module to make checks.
On the other side, there could some check on drupal_goto() or some easy way to determine if cron is running #888998: Add drupal_cron_is_running()
Comment #10
quietone commenteddrupal_path_initialize was removed from Drupal 8 in #1269742: Make path lookup code into a pluggable class. This is still relevant for Drupal 7.