I guess that maybe most of the accesses to your forum is from spiders/bots who will not try to make requests to the
task.php which is called as an image. You may monitor that at AdminCP's task log page to see if relevant tasks are executed in time.
If this is your case, maybe you could create a cron job on your server either by manually adding a cron job or through panels if you have any, or through online cron service to making periodical accesses, to that PHP file or URL.
For cron on local server, you need to call
php to run the
task.php file locally and periodically.
As an example, I have MyBB installed on a Linux box. I have following entry in
/etc/cron.d/webcron:
*/2 * * * * root bash /var/www/example_com/cron/community_example.task 2>&1 | logger -t WebCRON
This job will run a custom shell script that will call
php every 2 minutes. And the
/var/www/example_com/cron/community_example.task file contains:
#!/bin/bash
PHP_EXEC="$(which php)"
PHP_SCRIPT="/var/www/example_com/htdocs/community_example_com/task.php"
PHP_ARGS=""
if [ -f ${PHP_SCRIPT} ]; then
${PHP_EXEC} -f ${PHP_SCRIPT}
echo "CRON[community_example.task] executed: \`${PHP_SCRIPT}\`."
else
echo "CRON[community_example.task] error: file \`${PHP_SCRIPT}\` not found."
fi
For simplicity, add following as a cron job entry (replace the real path to MyBB in your server):
*/2 * * * * root php /var/www/example_com/htdocs/community_example_com/task.php 2>&1
For online cron service, you could add cron job for accessing
http(s)://your_forum_url/task.php.
