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1. thehalogod
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   I'm getting this error:

   Unfortunately WordPress cannot find the file wp-cron.php. This script is required for the the correct operation of garbage collection by this plugin, WordPress scheduled posts as well as other critical activities.

   Please see entry 16 in the Troubleshooting section of the readme.txt

   I also happen to have that issue where as of Wordpress 2.7 I can no longer schedule posts to be published at a later date (I have to use a plugin to force it now). Perhaps the two are related?

   I already had my server management company look into this:

   "Garbage collection of old cache files won't work if WordPress can't find wp-cron.php. If your hostname resolves to 127.0.0.1 it could be preventing the garbage collection from working. Check your access_logs for wp-cron.php entries. Do they return a 404 (file not found) or 200 code? If it's 404 or you don't see wp-cron.php anywhere WordPress may be looking for that script in the wrong place. You should speak to your server administator to correct this or edit /etc/hosts on Unix servers and remove the following line. Your hostname must resolve to the external IP address other servers on the network/Internet use. See http://yoast.com/wp-cron-issues/ for more."

   Any other ideas?

2. donncha
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   No, your administrator should be able to fix this in about 2 minutes. It's a local configuration issue.

3. samboll
   moderator
   Posted 2 months ago #

   donncha
   can you fix your link where these questions go to plugin forum and not install forum?

4. donncha
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   Samboll - I can't, but I'll ping someone about it.

5. samboll
   moderator
   Posted 2 months ago #

   thanks much

6. thehalogod
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   After I posted the above in a ticket to them he is saying he checked the settings and everything looks good.

   Where specifically should I tell him to look (I'm using cPanel)?

   If I get this issue fixed than can I assume the issue with my inability to schedule posts would be fixed to? And the fact that my google sitemap plugin doesn't update unless I manually run it?

7. donncha
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   I can't be clearer than what is written in the readme unfortunately. Basically, your server can't request a url from your blog's domain name.
   Tell your admin to login to it and wget your blog's url. It shouldn't work.

8. thehalogod
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   He is asking where he can test it. I currently haven't given him access to my wordpress install - would he even need it or are all of the changes possible for him to do without that access?

   Please advise...

   (My blog's URL is just the homepage. I don't have it in a certain file directory other than just the public_html folder so the posts are all myblog.com/mywordpresspost)

9. thehalogod
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   No love?

   I'd love to finally get this issue resolved... please help?

10. donncha
    Member
    Posted 2 months ago #

    As I said before, tell your admin to login to your server and wget the blog's url. Honestly, if he can't fix this ...

11. thehalogod
    Member
    Posted 1 month ago #

    As I said before, tell your admin to login to your server and wget the blog's url. Honestly, if he can't fix this ...

    I just gave him login credentials so hopefully he can fix.

    I just tried looking in cPanel and via FTP for the file that Yoast mentioned but I don't see it in the etc folder.

    It's times like these I hate the fact that I know so little about coding and the only thing I can do well is internet marketing.

12. thehalogod
    Member
    Posted 1 month ago #

    Would you help if I paid you...?

13. donncha
    Member
    Posted 1 month ago #

    I'm afraid I don't have time to, sorry. It should be simple enough for any systems admin to fix.

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