Create the following two files in your
/etc/systemd/system/ directory:
/etc/systemd/system/mybb.service
[Unit]
Description=MyBB Tasks
[Service]
User=www-data
ExecStart=/usr/bin/php /var/www/mybb/task.php
/etc/systemd/system/mybb.timer
[Unit]
Description=Runs MyBB tasks every minute
[Timer]
OnBootSec=5min
OnUnitActiveSec=1min
Unit=mybb.service
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Now, run the following commands in your terminal:
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable mybb.timer
systemctl start mybb.timer
I am not familiar with systemd tasks, I want to know will it not require any admin authentication to run tasks ?
No authentication needed at all, the /task.php file is executed as the system user you specify in the mybb.service file (User=www-data).
don't forget to remove this from the footer template or adjust the comment so it comments out {$task_image} as well:
<!-- The following piece of code allows MyBB to run scheduled tasks. DO NOT REMOVE -->{$task_image}<!-- End task image code -->
This is working well. thanks, kawaii!
Nicely done, should probably explain why this may be preferred over MyBB's Crons
Bumping this to say that I finally got around to doing this and I should've done it long ago.
@kawaii is the best!
We could use
php7.3 instead of PHP?
For those who have php7.3 running?
[Unit]
Description=MyBB Tasks
[Service]
User=www-data
ExecStart=/usr/bin/php7.3 /var/www/mybb/task.php
Hi, nice tutorial.
Any insight into what the code would be for running multiple MyBB instances in a single server? I suppose only the first file would need modification.
(2021-07-22, 12:30 AM)Omar G. Wrote: [ -> ]Hi, nice tutorial.
Any insight into what the code would be for running multiple MyBB instances in a single server? I suppose only the first file would need modification.
We can simply add
Type=oneshot to the
[Service] section of the
mybb.service file, and then specify multiple
ExecStart like this;
[Unit]
Description=MyBB Tasks
[Service]
Type=oneshot
User=www-data
ExecStart=/usr/bin/php /var/www/mybb/task.php
ExecStart=/usr/bin/php /var/www/another_forum/task.php
ExecStart=/usr/bin/php /var/www/secret_mybb/task.php
I didn't test this though, it may be better to specify many different service/timer files instead of my idea here.