Regressed: Scheduled reports should be sent automatically by webcron, when cron is not setup

[mattab]

It used to work this way:

• If cron is setup, then cron will send email reports and execute other scheduled tasks
• When cron is not setup, then the piwik.php requests will act as a webcron, and trigger archiving and scheduled tasks automatically when visitors visit the website.

This seems to have regressed in 2.0 as we got several reports by users that this stopped working.

Let's investigate the webcron and fix. Hopefully we can add integration test for this feature?

[hpvd]

maybe this is also the reason why piwik auto update is not working?

#4263

[hpvd]

shouldn't it be possible to check in each installation if this is working fine via the TasksTimetable Plugin?

=> if there are only negative times to next scheduled task - so all cron jobs are in the past- no cron (standart nor webcron) is working

if so this problem is also in my installation because - otherwise I should have never seen/found this problem
#4540

[hpvd]

if this influences also all standard task: delete, archive, optimize etc which could be seen in the TaskTimetable Plugin

Prio and Version to fix should be set as high as /near as possible...

what do you think?

[hpvd]

Since I check for piwik update on our testing site at least once per week to latest version/beta, one could calculate from the entries in TaskTimetable Pluging when / in which version the problem starts...

please see attachement

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Scheduled Tasks

The following tasks are scheduled to be executed based on the current server time Monday 3 February 2014 13:18:18.
Name Date (Server time)
Piwik_PrivacyManager.deleteLogData Tuesday 15 October 2013 00:00:51
(in -111 days 13 hours)
Piwik_PrivacyManager.deleteReportData Tuesday 15 October 2013 00:00:51
(in -111 days 13 hours)
Piwik_CoreAdminHome.purgeOutdatedArchives Tuesday 15 October 2013 00:00:51
(in -111 days 13 hours)
Piwik_CoreAdminHome.optimizeArchiveTable Tuesday 15 October 2013 00:00:53
(in -111 days 13 hours)
Piwik_UserCountry_GeoIPAutoUpdater.update Wednesday 16 October 2013 00:00:21
(in -110 days 13 hours)
GeoIPAutoUpdater.update Wednesday 18 December 2013 00:00:46
(in -47 days 13 hours)

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[hpvd]

Attachment:
2014-02-03_14h19_30.png

[tsteur]

In d9f08bd: fixes #4612 do not bootstrap complete CronArchive when we just want to run scheduled tasks

[hpvd]

thanks for the fix.
Just installed latest piwik master from github.

Since there is no change in list of tasks visible within TaskTimetable Plugin:

do we have to restart the webcron jobs with standard setting / standard tasks?
How to do so?
Or should the fix do this?

[tsteur]

It should be triggered at some point when visits are tracked.

[hpvd]

Attachment:
2014-02-07_11h25_35-1.png

[hpvd]

sorry looks still the same - no new tasks :-(

[mattab]

I think it's a different bug @hpvd. Do you mind opening new one with this particular case of "tasks scheduled in the past are not running as expected".