WHMCS Cron not working on Enhance – how did you solve it? - Enhance Control Panel

WHMCS Cron not working on Enhance – how did you solve it?

Hello,

I’m having a specific issue with WHMCS on Enhance servers: the cron is not running correctly.

I tested the recommended commands:

/usr/bin/php -q /path/to/whmcs/crons/cron.php

/opt/ecp-php83/bin/php -d zend_extension=/usr/local/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_8.3.so -q /path/to/whmcs/crons/cron.php

and also the method recommended by WHMCS itself with the crons directory moved outside public_html:

/usr/bin/php -q /hidden/path/to/whmcs/crons/cron.php

he issue is that, instead of executing the cron, it sometimes returns HTML as if it were being processed via the web server instead of CLI.

I have already confirmed:

Interestingly, on the same server, WiseCP works perfectly with:

php -q /path/to/wisecp/cronjobs.php

So this seems to be something specific to WHMCS in the Enhance environment.

Has anyone encountered this issue?

Did you use a different PHP binary, specific CLI configuration, an alternative cron setup, or some other workaround?

Thank you.

I'm not familiar with WHMCS, but for ClientExec it works with:

php -q public_html/cron.php

Hope that helps to eliminate, as it also has Ioncube enabled