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Issue with WordPress Autoptimize Cache filling up cPanel Server Space.

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Issue with Autoptimize Cache filling up cPanel Server Space.
As a temporary fix, just run a cron to delete all the cache files once an hour.
– I have only seen this issue with a Multisite install, but I haven’t had a problem on single site installs.

Log into cPanel go to CRONs

Under ‘Add a New Cron Job’ use the following settings:

Minute: 7
Hour: *
Day: *
Month: *
Weekday: *

Under the command section you need to first work out where your WordPress site is installed,
usually under cPanel it is under /home/[your_cpanel_username]/public_html/

Then you need to add the folder of the Autoptimize Cache folder, so the entire thing looks something like this:

/home/[your_cpanel_username]/public_html/wp-content/wp-content/cache/autoptimize/

Add the command rm -r at the start, put it all together and you have the right command:
!IMPORTANT! – The command rm -r will delete everything in the folder, if you get the path to the folder wrong, you could delete your entire website. You have been warned!

rm -r /home/[your_cpanel_username]/public_html/wp-content/wp-content/cache/autoptimize/

 

2016-01-14 10_20_04-cPanelX-CronJobs

So what we are doing is just at 7 minutes past the hour, of all hours, of all days, of all months, each weekday (that’s how you read the * in the cron) we delete all the files in the folder that we told it too.

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Creating a ticket via the osTicket API using PHP & Crontab (cron job)

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I feel that there is very little documentation and examples around of how to do this, and it bugged me for more than 10 minutes, so I thought I’d share my findings.

The documentation can currently be found here: https://github.com/osTicket/osTicket-1.7/blob/develop/setup/doc/api.md and here: https://github.com/osTicket/osTicket-1.7/blob/develop/setup/doc/api/tickets.md

A sample script can be found here: https://github.com/osTicket/osTicket-1.7/blob/develop/setup/scripts/rcron.php (which is what I based the following example off).

But I like to be somewhat lazy and copy and paste a script, test to see it works and then go about tweaking it.

#!/usr/bin/php -q
 URL to api/tickets.json e.g http://yourdomain.com/support/api/tickets.json
# key => API's Key (see admin panel on how to generate a key)
#

$config = array(
'url'=>'http://yourdomain.com/support/api/tickets.json',
'key'=>'[long api key goes here]'
);

#pre-checks
function_exists('curl_version') or die('CURL support required');

#set timeout
set_time_limit(30);

#Sample data for the ticket
# See https://github.com/osTicket/osTicket-1.7/blob/develop/setup/doc/api/tickets.md for full list of variables and options that you can pass.
$data = array("alert" => "true",
       "autorespond" => "true",
       "source" => "API",
       "name" => "Angry User",
       "email" => "[email protected]",
       "subject" => "Testing API 3",
       "message" => "MESSAGE HERE"
);
#Convert the above array into json to POST to the API with curl below.
$data_string = json_encode($data);

#curl post
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $config['url']);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data_string);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'osTicket API Client v1.7');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array( 'Expect:', 'X-API-Key: '.$config['key']));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
$result=curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

if(preg_match('/HTTP\/.* ([0-9]+) .*/', $result, $status) && $status[1] == 200)
exit(0);

echo $result;
exit(1);
?>

 

Then follow your hosts instructions for adding a Cron Job.
Mine looks something like this:

php /home/abennett/public_html/sample-api.php