Tuesday, April 11, 2017

running Laravel 5 schedule via cron on AWS EC2

Problem:
I have a Laravel 5.4 artisan task that I need to run via cron - but it is not being completed despite the Command and Scheduler being (apparently) set-up correctly.

Is this a Laravel, php, apache, linux or crontab issue ? What's the best way to diagnose ?

Background
On default (amazon AMI) EC2 instance, the artisan command is defined correctly and runs perfectly from the project directory (which is /var/www/html/myproject/) when called via:

php artisan mycommand:option1

I've added this to a schedule into app/Console/Kernel.php which looks like this:

protected function schedule(Schedule $schedule)
{
    Log::info('schedule:run');
    $schedule   ->command('mycommand:option1')
                        ->dailyAt('07:00')
                        ->emailOutputTo('email@email.com');

    $schedule   ->command('mycommand:option2')
                        ->dailyAt('07:15')
                        ->emailOutputTo('email@email.com');
}

Added the following cron command for apache via sudo crontab -u apache -e:

* * * * * php /var/www/html/myproject/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

To ensure it's not a permissions issue I also added the same command for the following users :

  • ec2-user via crontab -e
  • root via sudo crontab -e

System Output

from sudo tail -f /var/log/cron :

Apr 11 19:17:01 ip-10-0-0-42 CROND[17968]: (root) CMD (php /var/www/html/myproject/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1)
Apr 11 19:17:01 ip-10-0-0-42 CROND[17969]: (ec2-user) CMD (php /var/www/html/myproject/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1)
Apr 11 19:17:01 ip-10-0-0-42 CROND[17970]: (apache) CMD (php /var/www/html/myproject/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1)
Apr 11 19:18:01 ip-10-0-0-42 CROND[17980]: (ec2-user) CMD (php /var/www/html/myproject/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1)
Apr 11 19:18:01 ip-10-0-0-42 CROND[17981]: (apache) CMD (php /var/www/html/myproject/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1)
Apr 11 19:18:01 ip-10-0-0-42 CROND[17982]: (root) CMD (php /var/www/html/myproject/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1)
Apr 11 19:19:01 ip-10-0-0-42 CROND[17992]: (root) CMD (php /var/www/html/myproject/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1)
Apr 11 19:19:01 ip-10-0-0-42 CROND[17993]: (ec2-user) CMD (php /var/www/html/myproject/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1)
Apr 11 19:19:01 ip-10-0-0-42 CROND[17994]: (apache) CMD (php /var/www/html/myproject/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1)

nothing appearing in either of these:
sudo tail -f /var/www/html/myproject/storage/log/laravel.log
or
sudo tail -f /var/www/html/myproject/storage/log/laravel-2017-04-11.log

Additional Info

Kernel permissions:

drwxr-sr-x 2 apache apache 4096 Feb 24 00:24 Commands
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 1111 Feb 24 00:24 Kernel.php

Resources checked:

Other info:

  • running Laravel 5.4.16 as determined by php artisan --version
  • running PHP 7.1.3 as determined by php -v


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