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1. modifoo
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   For quite some while I have been experiencing the wp-cron problem, meaning that my server gets a lot of hits from wp-cron trying to execute.

   I have a number of word press installations running on the rented server, and this problem only occurs one my main blog (www.modifoo.com), but on none of the others. Some days the wp-cron makes over 10.000 hits, eating more than 1/3 of the server time.

   I read quite a few of the threads discussing this problem, and the only solution so far I have found is disabling wp-cron, which I know is not a good solution, and only works until the next update.

   I have tried running the wp-cron-fix.php script mentioned in another thread, but only got the following error messages:

   Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/6252/domains/modifoo.com/html/wp-cron-fix.php:29) in /home/6252/domains/modifoo.com/html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php on line 119
   We are fixing Cron for Post ID :
   Warning: usort() [function.usort]: The argument should be an array in /home/6252/domains/modifoo.com/html/wp-cron-fix.php on line 51

   Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/6252/domains/modifoo.com/html/wp-cron-fix.php on line 53

   I also tried changing the WP-cron permission to 644, as suggested in yet another thread. Again, no luck.

   I do not know my way around .htaccess - but there is no .htaccess file in the root folder of the domain, which is where wordpress is installed.

   I just updated to the current version of wp, and just like the last times, this has not helped.

   Hope someone can help - thanks a lot!

2. modifoo
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I just had a look at my log, and all the wp-cron requests get a 200:

   64.13.205.47 - - [17/Nov/2008:02:01:06 -0800] "GET /modifoo.com/wp-cron.php?check=750f6724adfde56a416052cbd28a0f3f HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "-"
   64.13.205.47 - - [17/Nov/2008:02:01:24 -0800] "GET /modifoo.com/wp-cron.php?check=750f6724adfde56a416052cbd28a0f3f HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "-"

   All subsequent requests come from the same IP address and have the same check= number.

   Any help is greatly appeciated!

3. modifoo
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Still running today:

   64.13.205.47 - - [27/Nov/2008:03:03:44 -0800] "GET /modifoo.com/wp-cron.php?check=750f6724adfde56a416052cbd28a0f3f HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "-"

4. slavben
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Same issue here

5. modifoo
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Otto?

   Anyone?

6. n2nel
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I have the same problem.. wp-chron starting every 15/20 minutes and doing several access...

   Heres an example of wassup statics:

   * 20:33:52 ->/wp-cron.php?check=1257a7f5db1fdb05fc9d61bf...
   * 20:36:56 ->/wp-cron.php?check=1257a7f5db1fdb05fc9d61bf...
   * 20:40:00 ->/wp-cron.php?check=1257a7f5db1fdb05fc9d61bf...
   * 20:43:55 ->/wp-cron.php?check=1257a7f5db1fdb05fc9d61bf...
   * 20:46:58 ->/wp-cron.php?check=1257a7f5db1fdb05fc9d61bf...
   * 20:50:02 ->/wp-cron.php?check=1257a7f5db1fdb05fc9d61bf...
   * 20:53:07 ->/wp-cron.php?check=1257a7f5db1fdb05fc9d61bf...
   * 20:56:10 ->/wp-cron.php?check=1257a7f5db1fdb05fc9d61bf...
   * 20:59:15 ->/wp-cron.php?check=1257a7f5db1fdb05fc9d61bf...

   Someone help us please!

7. modifoo
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hmm... been doing a bit more of searching and trying.

   Turns out when I try to access wp-cron.php directly, I get a 403 error - even though the permissions are set to 755. Weirder still, if I delete wp-cron, I still get a 403, and not a 404.

   On my other domains I don't get any error messages at all.

   So - how do I fix the permissions? Or is that something that is wrong with the .htaccess?

8. modifoo
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Fixed the 403 issue, there was a strange rewrite rule in .htaccess

   Alas, my server still gets hit with the wp-cron.php requests.

   Anyone here to help???

9. n2nel
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I really can't undestand, maybe we are using some plugin that calls that cron request... my htaccess got the basic rewrite commands.. so i don't think it belongs to htaccess settings...

   I hope someone will help us solving this bad situation...

10. n2nel
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    btw, who is your hosting provider? i'm with Godaddy

11. Samuel B
    moderator
    Posted 3 years ago #

    http://www.ditii.com/2008/06/09/control-your-wordpress-cron-wp-cronphp-with-wp-crontrol-wordpress-plugin/

    http://trinity777.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/wordpress-26-the-issue-of-wp-cronphp/

12. Tozzano
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    I was having constant 403 hits in my logs, and from 127.0.0.1
    It turns out that when I installed, I had copied the files from /usr/share/wordpress to my web directory /var/www/html/public/wp
    In the configuration, I had set the main path to /var/www/html/public/wp as well.

    Into the Apache config, the installation had added this alias:

    Alias /wordpress "/usr/share/wordpress"
    <Directory "/usr/share/wordpress">
      Options FollowSymLinks
      AllowOverride Options
    </Directory>

    Since my Apache root is /var/www/html, I changed the alias to:

    Alias /public/wp "/usr/share/wordpress"

    And the errors are gone. I hope this helps someone.

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