Cannot schedule a bash script with crontab

Question

I am going crazy as not understanding what I am doing wrong.

I wrote this bash script to run a php script with nohup. It looks like this:

#!/bin/bash
nohup /usr/bin/php /opt/bitnami/nginx/html/folder/script.php $argv > fileoutput.txt 2>&1 &

when I run in in terminal as ./script.sh it does work, I can see the process running if I grep php and also my database updates.

Now I am trying to automate this process with crontab with this instruction:

43 * * * * /bin/sh /opt/bitnami/nginx/html/folder/script.sh

I am just changing the minute currently to test the automation as I will add a cycle of $argv to be executed when I manage to get this to work.

I have applied chmod 777 to the script.sh and now I really have no idea what else to fix.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

The desktop's runtime environment differs from the cron runtime environment. Read man 5 crontab and run

(echo "=== set ===";set;echo "===env ==="; env | sort;echo "=== alias ===";alias)

in both environments, and compare the results.