If you run drupal from command line (p.e. cron.php) $base_path is not set to it's default value "/" in conf_init(), because dirname() always returns a value that's interpreted as TRUE.

If $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] doesn't contain a directory the return value of dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']) is ".". So in the current implementation $base_path is set to "/./" instead of "/" if you run cron.php. I attached a patch that solves the issue.

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cmsproducer commented
Status: Needs review » Reviewed & tested by the community

I have tested the code on 5.7x and it generates an IF error even if the syntax structure is verified to be correct.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_IF in /home/xxxxxxxxxxx/public_html/_ngreens/includes/bootstrap.inc on line 266

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mkalkbrenner
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We are running drupal 5.7 on our linux servers with bootstrap_5_7.patch applied without any errors.

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drumm
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Status: Reviewed & tested by the community » Closed (works as designed)

cron.php is not actually designed to be run from the command line.

In Drupal 6 and above, there is scripts/drupal.sh which does make this possible and handles $base_path in all situations, including sites installed subdirectories. drupal.sh does work the same on Drupal 5.x.

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murz
Primary language English
Location Yerevan, Armenia
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Many hostings runs cron task from command line and have no permission to change method to http.
And Drupal in this state can't get $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] value and other.
For setting correct $base_url I do this changes:

      $base_url = $base_root .= '://'. preg_replace('/[^a-z0-9-:._]/i', '', $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);

change to:

    if($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'])
      $base_url = $base_root .= '://'. preg_replace('/[^a-z0-9-:._]/i', '', $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
    else {
      global $cookie_domain;
      $base_url = $base_root .= '://'. $cookie_domain;
    }