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1. indiramm
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi,
   I've spent already quite some time trying to configure wp-mail.php.
   When I check it online via browser, it works fine.
   I set up a cron job at media temple where my blog is hosted, and set up an email account only to get debugging from the cron job. when I finally managed to make it do something, all I get is a message saying
   

   Error establishing a database connection

   and the rest of the associated message. Apparently it reaches the point where it cannot grab data from wp-config and just dies there.
   Again, it only happens with the cron. With the browser works just fine.
   the cron is like this:

   /usr/bin/php /home/something/domains/domain/html/wp-mail.php

   the path is correctly set up. I am totally lost. Any help or clue appreciated. Thanks a lot,
   Indira

2. indiramm
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi,
   well, after messing around with everything, I wentback to the wget -N command in the cron object.
   It is now working, that is, I send a mail to the secret account and the job is doing just fine.
   the only flaw is that I am still geting a PERMISSION DENIED error log from the cron file but that's it, it's not dupplicating entries now, and it publishes them just fine, evenusing outlook with HTML messages. Still I think it should be easier to understand and configure, it took me quite some time to understand.
   php /complete path/wp-mail-php won't work I think because it shouldn't be a path but a URL in order for the PHp of wp-mail to include the wp-config.php and the other file. else, it cann't find (and this is only a guess) server path and dir path variables. I repeat, I'm only guessing, but that's why I got a database error.
   with the URL it didn't work at all, I got a "cannot find input file"
   so it just worked this way, setting permissions to 777 for wp-mail.php.
   anyway, I hope this helps someone save a little time.
   regards!

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