By Nameless-3 on

Hello people,

This is my first time here at the Drupal community. I fell in love with Drupal after I tried out Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal on my local MAMP webserver, and my site is now successfully online after a few months of very hard work. When I used Drupal on my MAMP, cron wasn't working, but I thought that it was just because it was a local webserver and not a proper one.

But now that my site is online, cron isn't working either, and hasn't been for more than two weeks, apparently. Can someone help me with this problem? My site is linked below.

Thanks, Nameless
Philosophical Blog of a Modern Teenager

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ezraw’s picture

ezraw commented

Can you post your crontab?

Ezra Wolfe
DLC Solutions
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kevinquillen commented

did you ever schedule a timed cron job for drupal?

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Nameless-3 commented

Thanks for your replies! I'm new to drupal site so I never knew that you had to wait a long time for responses. No, I didn't "set" cron schedules, whatever that is, as I am new and I thought that it just updates automatically. I also don't really understand what "cron tab" is, but it seems like "cron" is working miraculously suddenly, as the error message is now gone and I see that I need to update the Views Module. Am I meant to put a schedule or something?

(Assuming that cron is something that you use to check for new updates on modules and systems.)

Thanks so much!!! Nameless

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ezraw commented

You do need to set it up, it's not set up by default.

This page should explain everything you need to know: http://drupal.org/cron

Ezra Wolfe
DLC Solutions
EthosCE

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ericinwisconsin commented

I'm not sure if you're using Linux or Windows for your webserver, Nameless, but if you're using Linux, and you're not that familiar with the command prompt or you're like me and lazy sometimes, you can install Webmin or some other gui-based admin tool on your server and set a cron up rather simply from anywhere on the web.

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Nameless-3 commented

I read the whole site, but unfortunately I am not very good at coding and things like that, so I didn't understand a word of it. But I got it alll fixed out now. I know how to run cron manually (by running cron.php), and I installed the poormanscron module to help me out with it as well.

Seems like cron is working fine now. Thanks for the information!!!
Cheers, Nameless_