CRON - automatic posting setup assistance (Back)

Fill out the instadigi form as you normally would - specify any relevant keywords, chose which forum to populate, etc. then instead of clicking 'Generate posts now!', click the 'Automate Generation' button.

You should then be presented with two links - the first one is probably the one you want - it will generate posts based on the current date. The second link is for specifying a date range.

With the first link generated, anytime you click on this link it will generate posts on your forum (copy and paste it in to your browser and you will see an example).

So essentially what you want to do is have this link 'clicked' every day (or however frequently you want new posts on your forum). Most servers allow you to automatically call links via a tool called CRON. You server host should be able to assist you in setting up a CRON to call your instadigi link as required.

Also, CRON varies from server to server. If you can set it up from cpanel it should work easily enough. Just make sure you use the correct syntax. Here's an example cron that works with our cpanel:

/usr/bin/curl -s 'http://YOUR-INSTADIGI-CRON-URL'

note: on our version of cpanel the cron fails if the instadigi link is not surrounded by single quotes '' . EXAMPLE:

THIS WORKS:

/usr/bin/curl -s 'http://YOUR-INSTADIGI-CRON-URL'

THIS DOES NOT WORK:

/usr/bin/curl -s http://YOUR-INSTADIGI-CRON-URL

ALTERNATIVELY, if your server is having problems calling URL's using the above method. You can create a php file and call that from cron as follows:

Creat a cron.php file in your server root. Eg http://www.YOURSERVER.COM/cron.php

Place the following code in the cron.php file:

<?php
$handle = fopen("YOUR-INSTADIGI-CRON-URL", "r");
?>

Set up your cron to call the php file:

/usr/bin/php /PATH-TO-YOUR-SERVER-HOME/public_html/cron.php >/dev/null 2>&1

Kind regards,

INSTADIGI TEAM

CRON - automatic posting setup assistance (Back)

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