Cron-job issue: "FATAL: Must be run from ROOT directory of Grav!"

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I set up a cron-job to make backups from a shell script but I get the message “FATAL: Must be run from ROOT directory of Grav!”. Any ideas how to fix this?

The shell script navigates to the Grav root folder and then executes “bin/grav backup” (no quotes). I saved the script outside the /public_html folder and also in Grav’s root but no luck so far.

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Well that should work. Can you paste your script that you are running via cron?

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Hello Andy, the .sh is below. I added the pwd just to make sure I was in the right folder.

#!/bin/bash
cd /home/myuser/public_html/demo;
echo “pwd: ${PWD}”
/home/twintech/public_html/demo/bin/grav backup

The output I get:

pwd: /home/myuser/public_html/demo
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.5.30
Content-type: text/html

FATAL: Must be run from ROOT directory of Grav!

I also ran the script with “bin/grav backup” as the last line and got the same error.

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By the way, /demo is Grav’s root folder.

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If you already cd into demo, you just need to write

#!/bin/bash
cd /home/myuser/publichtml/demo;
echo “pwd: ${PWD}”
bin/grav backup
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Yeah, I tried both. Check the last line of my post.

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Probably wont’ make a difference, but you could try:

./bin/grav backup
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It did not make a difference, same error message. :frowning:

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One year later, the fix was prefixing the command with “php-cli”:

php-cli bin/grav backup

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Ah that’s a very server specific solution. Your server configuration obviously has php bound to the FCGI version, and requires you to specify the CLI version with php-cli