can't run finder_indexer.php from cron

[ghost]

finder-indexer.php has a check to make sure you're not running from a web browser.

however it's throwing the error 'This is a command line only application' for me when i run it as php finder_indexer.php from a cron job (which should be allowed and is probably the most common use case). if i run the same command from the command line it works (returns 'cgi')

so i don't think 'cli' is the only possible value that should be allowed?

[ghost]

note, when run from cron, PHP_SAPI returns 'cgi-fcgi' vs. 'cgi'. so checking for either, or that 'cgi' is in the string (or 'apahe' is not in the string) would be a more generic way to kill the script if it's being run from the web interface.

right now i have to hack line 22 of finder_indexer.php to look for 'cgi' or 'cgi-fcgi' in order for it to run in my environment.
if (PHP_SAPI !== 'cli') -------> if (PHP_SAPI !== 'cli' and PHP_SAPI !== 'cgi-fcgi')

[tiagovtg]

@barrycox your issue, need to be open in a issue oficial joomla at https://issues.joomla.org/

Thx