[Plugin: Knews Multilingual Newsletters] Cron job rewriting URL

WP comes with internal CRON, Knews can use it or configure the more reliable webserver cron, but WP-CRON continues working for some services… in other words: is normal and not related with Knews:

https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/12777/what-is-this-doing-wp-cron

Regards,
Carles.

Hi Carles,

So I have followed your link and added the ALTERNATE_WP_CRON line to wp-config, have gone through my settings in k-news, have contacted my host company, and no joy.

In my k-news configuration panel, there is a red warning that my cron job has not been set up, even though it has and is working. Could this be related to the issue? I’m using my host’s cron tool, not the internal WP one.

I’ve looked all over for more information on this issue, but other than this page and the one you linked, I’m not seeing anything else. If this is normal and not related to Knews, why do I not find more info on it?

Can you point me to any other resource that might help?

Thanks,

Hello Mranster!

I only put the link to show you why the param as added, and it is normal, not to change anything in your config ??

Are you readed our CRON tutorial:
https://www.knewsplugin.com/configure-webserver-cron/

Regards,
Carles.

Yes, I did read the Cron tutorial, and the job is set up properly and it runs. There is still an error in the Knews configuration page that says it’s not set up.

First of all: have you the latest Knews version? In 1.2.1 or 1.2.2 there is a bug with this…

There is a easy way to test it: copy the URL of the CRON command (starting with https://…) in your browser, then load the page, go to wordpress admin, go to dashboard and tell me if the red alert still disappears. Obviously after 10 minutes will be shown again…

Thanks!
Carles.

I am using 1.2.4. The red warning goes away after your test.

Well, I appreciate the help, but it seems you are correct that K-news is not the culprit. I have both deactivaed K-news and deleted the cron job and still have the url rewrite.

So, thank you for your patience; I will look elsewhere.

Huh. No, I’m afraid that is incorrect. It’s definitely the k-news plugin.

I deactivated, then reactivated it, and did not get the URL rewrite problem. Until I clicked the “Use WordPress internal cron” button. Then the URL was rewritten again.

Once again, I chose the host cron option, set up the job, and still get the error box, and still have the rewrite problem.

Please, submit your admin url and user & pass to: contact at knewsplugin dot com and I will digg in… please, put mranster in the subject…

Regards,
Carles.

Did anyone find a solution? I am having a similar if not the exact problem.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/cron-issues?replies=2

Johnny

Hi Johnny,

Not yet. I just returned to my inbox today to find both you and Carles had posted, so I just now sent the requested email.

I’ll post here when a solution is available if Carles doesn’t beat me to it.

Hello mranster!

Four days ago, I suggested you to do this:

“There is a easy way to test it: copy the URL of the CRON command (starting with https://…) in your browser, then load the page, go to wordpress admin, go to dashboard and tell me if the red alert still disappears. Obviously after 10 minutes will be shown again…”

I just do it and… Knews works!

I was go to the Knews Configuration advanced tab, and I see the 5000 minutes without a Cron input red message… I copyed the URL for cron job, put in another window, then reloaded the config page… and the red message there isn’t, now says: ” CRON is properly configured. The last execution was done 0 minutes ago”!!!

Please, to configure your CRON, read our tutorial: https://www.knewsplugin.com/configure-webserver-cron/

Carles.