Windows 10 (OS) - XAMPP with localhost - Oxwall software - Cron issues

Question

I know this may be a long shot targeting those here on stackoverflow who use oxwall software to help me with my question, but sadly, I've tried all other sources - even the oxwall forums but to no avail.

For starters - here is what I have so far:

• I'm currently running Windows 10 as my OS
• I have XAMPP installed
• Control panel Apache and MySQL are activated or started/running
• Using Localhost:100 instead of Localhost:80 due to conflicts with other applications
• User: root with password left blank or empty
• I have the Oxwall software - version 1.8.0 within my htdocs folder
• I have a database setup using mysql with it's current port set to 3306

My issue:

When installing the oxwall software and get to the third section in the installation process, I am unable to proceed due to setting up a cron job incorrectly.

Due to the fact that I'm running on a localhost with my port as 100 - on a windows machine, using xampp - I'm pretty much clueless on how to get this cron job working correctly and/or even setup for that matter.

I've read literally all the topics that were discussed on the oxwall forums and even followed their documentation but still nothing.

The error I get is this:

ow_includes/config.php file is incorrect. Update it with details provided below.

However, the only details given states:

• Create a cron job that runs ow_cron/run.php once a minute. (?) - with the question mark directing me to the oxwall documentation of how to setup a cron job. But that doesn't seem to work...

I'm literally at a loss here, I've tried to create a .bat file and created a task schedule but nothing...

Even if there is nobody here that uses Oxwall, I'm hoping this can still be answered.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

I received the same error message when using using Oxwall 1.8.1 on my own VPS with CentOS 7, PHP 5.5.31 and mariaDB 5.5.44.

I noticed that the DB only contained one table because my DB user does not have 'Lock table' rights. Once I added these rights to my DB user for Oxwall DB, removed the table and continued the installation, all tables were created and installation was successful.