Can Smart Search Indexer be set to run via a cron job?

[EmilyB]

Hi,

I want to run the smart search indexer nightly to keep search results up to date etc. Is it possible to run a cron job to achieve this?

I have tried:

/usr/bin/wget -O /dev/null "https://mysite.com/index.php?option=com ... ndex.index" > /dev/null 2>&1

And also:

/usr/bin/php /mysite/httpdocs/cli/joomla.php finder:index

I can't find any guidence on how to do this that works on my site.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, also any suggestions on how many times it should be run for optimum performance.

Kind regards

[SharkyKZ]

finder:index command is correct. Did it not work for you?

[Per Yngve Berg]

https://docs.joomla.org/J4.x:Using_the_CLI#Finder

[EmilyB]

Hi,

many thanks to both of you for your help. I am just trying the finder:index again. Should it be the website url like this:

/usr/bin/php /var/www/mysitename.com/httpdocs/cli/joomla.php finder:index > /dev/null 2>&1

Or like this:

/usr/bin/php /var/www/mysitename/httpdocs/cli/joomla.php finder:index > /dev/null 2>&1

Also, how regular should it be run on a site with multiple components that use it? I have easysocial, easyblog and numerous other components that rely on it.

[Per Yngve Berg]

You have to run the php command

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/usr/local/bin/php /home/username/public_html/[optional subfolder]/cli/joomla.php

[EmilyB]

Hi,

thanks for replying. I tried this based on your suggestion but it still didn't run:

/usr/local/bin/php /home/mysite/public_html/cli/joomla.php finder:index > /dev/null 2>&1

It does run if I paste the following in the browser:

https://www.mysite.com/administrator/in ... =component

Does that mean anything?

[Per Yngve Berg]

1) Is the Path to the PHP Command correct?

2) Is the Path to the Joomla Installation correct?

what happens when you type php at the terminal?