By nhchau on

I upgraded my Drupal from 6.7 to 6.8. After upgrading, Cron does not run properly. I tried to run from shell: "php cron.php" and got the following error:

Status: 400 Bad Request
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.6
Content-type: text/html

My PHP version:
PHP 5.2.6 (cgi-fcgi) (built: Nov 29 2008 22:35:16)
Copyright (c) 1997-2008 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2008 Zend Technologies

Please help me to solve this error.

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nhchau commented

The Drupal's cron run well if I clicked to this link: .../admin/reports/status/run-cron but cannot run from command line as "php cron.php"

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se commented

Same situation here. After upgrade 6.6->6.7->6.8 cron stopped work. Cron log at webhosting looks ok, if I "run" /cron.php from my browser it is proccessed successfuly..

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nhchau commented

Please go to this URL http://drupal.org/node/346285 and apply patch described there. I patched, and it works for both Drupal 6.8 and Drupal 5.14. Hope this helps.

The patch code is here: http://drupal.org/files/issues/drupal-5-empty_http_host_support-1.patch

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Bob4613 commented

How is this patch applied? Is this code copied into the "cron.php" file or somewhere else?

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nhchau commented

In Drupal 6.8, edit file /includes/bootstrap.inc, go to line 279 or search for drupal_valid_http_host() function, change the function's original code:

$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] = strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
return preg_match('/^\[?(?:[a-z0-9-:\]_]+\.?)+$/', $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);

to

if (empty($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'])) return true; // Add this line
$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] = strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
return preg_match('/^\[?(?:[a-z0-9-:\]_]+\.?)+$/', $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);

This patch also applies well to Drupal 5.8: edit the same file, go to line 242 or search for drupal_valid_http_host() function repeat the above action.

Good luck.

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Bob4613 commented

nhchau

That worked & the cron is working again.. It was a little confusing at first, I didn't know if I was supposed to leave // in the code or not. All is good.

Thanks for the help.

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AndyW commented

And now it's giving me "HTTP request status" every single time the Cron is run while previously it was only doing it now and again

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jdefay commented

Thanks nhchau, your suggested change to bootstrap.inc worked for me with my web hosting provider (Logicweb).

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ludodrupal commented

Thank you very much. This helped me a lot.

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holgerhubbs commented

My hosting provider sends me some canned support: "Please note that you will need to update the "$HOME" object in your Cron Job to your hosting account's full path."

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datahazard commented

It stopped working on all of my installations when I upgraded on day 0. I just changed my cron job to instead of running "php cron.php" it now does:
cd/tmp ;
wget http://mysite/cron.php ;
rm cron.php

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throk commented

I'm running 6.8 and it works.

you can put it all in one line in CPanel like:

cd/tmp; wget http://mysite/cron.php; rm cron.php
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-Anti- commented

Thanks for the info and patch.
Sites running again now.

Pity that I didn't suspect drupal was to blame and spent two hours trying to troubleshoot the cpanel crontab. I was just about to fire off an email to webhost support asking them reset my account. Luckily I did a quick search here before doing that.

Cheers.

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socialnicheguru commented

I am having problems with a updating to D6 too
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