Wordpress Plug-in FeedWordPress: Problem with scheduled task

[MattK]

I use the excellent FeedWordPress on my blog in order to syndicate RSS into blog posts. Everything works great, except I cannot get my hosting company to run a scheduled task to automatically update the feeds.

I have followed the instructions which says you should "use the following line in your crontab:

25 * * * * cd $HOME/www/wp/wp-content ; php -q update-feeds.php

And I have altered the path to match my Web host, but this simply generates an acess denied message.

I don't have a great deal of knowledge with cron, so any help would be greatfully received.

[ServiceCube]

I can have a look at your site if you want. I think I know how to solve this.

Thanks,

[Cricket]

Originally Posted by ServiceCube

I can have a look at your site if you want. I think I know how to solve this.

Thanks,

Then why don't you post the help here?

[ServiceCube]

The way you followed should be correct. If I look at the web I may look at the source codes so that I can make a guess on the potential mistakes.

Hope you understood now.

Cheers,

[Tyler Banfield]

Instead of using

25 * * * * cd $HOME/www/wp/wp-content ; php -q update-feeds.php

I used

cd $HOME/www/mydomain/wp-content ; php -q update-feeds.php

and it works just fine (I'm using it on a shared Hostgator account).

I've got another question about FeedWordPress:

FWP allows you to choose whether you want the permalink to point to the original source or your own web site.

I want the permalink to point to my web site, but I would like to include a link back to the original source at the bottom of each post.

If anyone has an idea (or the code) to do this, your post would be greatly appreciated!

[MattK]

I finally got somewhere using:

/home/sites/mydomain/public_html/wp-content/update-feeds.php ; php -q

But now I'm getting a Permission Denied error?