By andrewl-1 on

Hi,

My cron job is now giving errors for the last couple of days when it runs (every hour).

I have not changed anything though I suspect my host has but they are clueless.

This is the error...any ideas?



406 Not Acceptable

Not Acceptable

An appropriate representation of the requested resource /cron.php could not be found on this server.

Apache/2.2.8 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.8 OpenSSL/0.9.7a mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at xxxxxxx.org.uk Port 80

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tomkephart17’s picture

tomkephart17 commented

@andrewl: I'm assuming the file cron.php still exists?

I wasted several hours dealing with cron with my hosting company. I've been with them a long time and overall they're great, but getting the cron job to run caused all kinds of errors. Finally I gave up and am using poormanscron, which works fine.
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Editor, New Tech Heroes
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Marine City, Michigan, USA

andrewl-1’s picture

andrewl-1 commented

Sure, the cron file exists, though I don't rule out the possibility that they have corrupted it!

Thanks for the tip on poormanscron.

Gaving’s picture

Gaving commented

I have exactly the same issue - which host are you with?

seedseller’s picture

seedseller commented

I have been hosting with Site5 and they just changed the mod_security rules. Now cron is not functional. I spent many hours with their tech support (clueless bunch) trying to find the problem. They couldn't figure it out. I did. I have not found a workaround yet, so am using poormanscron. But that does not solve the problem of non-drupal cron jobs. I probably will change web host.

Gaving’s picture

Gaving commented

I received the following from my host support team:

Most servers use a security program called mod_security. It appears that this has upgraded to version 2 and you are violating one of the restrictions setup by it;

Access denied with code 406 (phase 2). Match of "rx ^apache.*perl" against "REQUEST_HEADERS:User-Agent" required. [id "990011"] [msg "Request Indicates an automated program explored the site"] [severity "NOTICE"]

Something that your cron is doing is not liked by the system as it see's it as a security risk. I would recommend contacting the script designer/developer to inquire about a workaround for this.