Magento – Cron.php returns 403 forbidden

Apache2cronemailerrorhttp-status-403

We've noticed emails from e.g. contact forms were not being send even though the site said they were.
We've added the cronjob to the system, but when we tried to test it by executing cron.php, we got a 403 FORBIDDEN.

url: https://merchgeex.com/cron.php

How can we fix this?

/var/log/apache2/error.log –>

[Thu Oct 06 07:20:03.760087 2016] [access_compat:error] [pid 7969] [client *ip*] AH01797: client denied by server configuration: /var/www/cron.php

Best Answer

correct way to test cron is to execute inside your server, in console:

/var/www/cron.sh

make sure this file is executable:

chmod u+x /var/www/cron.sh

and check cron log and output.
you have .htaccess file that blocks cron.php execution from web.

email issues also must be logged into /var/www/var/log/ or mail log in system /var/log/

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enter code herePlease go to etc/apache2/apache2.conf near line no. 164 replace the code followind code

<Directory /var/www/>
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<Directory /var/www/>
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Magento 1.9 Error – Fix 403 Forbidden Error in Console

It seems like permissions error.

Provide full permissions to your site's root directory recursively or try giving Magento's standard permissions as one of the code below suggests.

Navigate to your root directory through Terminal:

find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

Now try refreshing in the browser.

Hope this works for you.

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