JoomlaPlug!

In order for the cron to run, you would need to first have activity on your site frontend, considering it's a localhost site, i am not sure how much activity you get there

Second, the link you provided there won't run without an authenticated admin session, it might work in your browser if you are logged as admin, but once you logout that link address won't execute any command

Hope it helps! Ovidiu

Hmmm, yes, I know about traffic, that's the reason because the cron is set to run every minute in order to test it periodic visit of myself on my home page (LOL).

About the second point, yes you are right, the link I provided is an Admin exclusive activity. So, to achieve this task from inside of Joomla you mean that I need to make public that task/link?. I'm concerned about security and other possile risk if I do that.
Is that the way that JoomlaCloner works in conjunction of JCron?.

Hmmm...what a catch...I've think that it could be great if JCron could log on by itself like a Joomla Admin and execute the task. I'm not sure it could be done, but would be very useful.

Anyway, thanks for your help Ovidiu!

JoomlaCloner usually works with JCron, you can use either a web command or ssh command type to run the task, however JCron depends very much on front activity and some basic server requirements as i stated above

It would be unsafe to make the JCron to login automatically to run a task, however it could be done if there is no other way around, and usually there is

Ovidiu

Usually there is a way around.
Finally I decided to add a public task to the component (by the way, it is a PDF Indexer) so now there is a bridge to JCron to interact with it. Basically what I do is trigger periodically the PDF indexer, so the text inside PDFs is inserted in Joomla's DB.

I assume that the risks are minimal, since users doesn't know that there's a path, and if they found it, well...they only can help JCron indexing more frequently.

All is working like a charm, thanks again Ovidiu for the orientation and inspiration!

Glad i could help! Good luck! Ovidiu

Hello,
I've got exactly the same problem. Maybe you could help me to add a public task to the PDF-Indexer-component?

Thanks a lot!!!