Web Cron: Your browser was unable to load the scripts of this page

Cangoou · February 6, 2023, 5:28pm

Hello!

I just did a fresh installation of matomo on a new webserver. I went through the installation-process without any problems, backend is working, tracking is working.

Now I want to install a web-cron as described here:

So I created an auth token and just for testing-reasons I called in my browser:
https://www.[My-Example-Domain].com/matomo/misc/cron/archive.php?token_auth=[My-Auth-Token]

What I get is this:

It seems this is the installation page (huh? I completed installation, can access the backend, tracking is working etc…) without stylesheets, scripts and images. Looking at the source-code, it seems that the links in the page are broken:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="index.php?module=Installation&action=getInstallationCss&cb=....">

Since the URL is currently /matomo/misc/cron/archive.php, the link to “index.php” has to fail, because it should be /matomo/index.php.

But on the other hand, why is the installation-file shown anyway? I wanted to call the cron-script…

I’m stuck here, I did already another installation, cleaning the database and all files, but without any success. Any other ideas?

Cangoou · February 7, 2023, 6:58am

It seems the problem is I’m setting PIWIK_USER_PATH in /bootstrap.php which is not loaded in /misc/cron/archive.php before PIWIK_USER_PATH was already set by archive.php.

heurteph-ei · February 7, 2023, 3:08pm

Link to GitHub issue:

github.com/matomo-org/matomo

/misc/cron/archive.php ignoring PIWIK_USER_PATH set in /bootstrap.php

opened 06:41AM - 07 Feb 23 UTC

Cangoo

Potential Bug To Triage

I use to define my own PIWIK_USER_PATH in /bootstrap.php to alter the path of th…e config.ini.php-file. But when calling /misc/cron/archive.php PIWIK_USER_PATH is already set BEFORE /bootstrap.php is called. ## Expected Behavior /bootstrap.php should be called before PIWIK_USER_PATH is set in /misc/cron/archive.php ## Current Behavior /bootstrap.php is called AFTER PIWIK_USER_PATH is already set in /misc/cron/archive.php ## Possible Solution /misc/cron/archive.php ``` if (!defined('PIWIK_DOCUMENT_ROOT')) { define('PIWIK_DOCUMENT_ROOT', realpath(dirname(__FILE__) . "/../..")); } // Added if (file_exists(PIWIK_DOCUMENT_ROOT . '/bootstrap.php')) { require_once PIWIK_DOCUMENT_ROOT . '/bootstrap.php'; } // /Added if (!defined('PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH')) { define('PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH', PIWIK_DOCUMENT_ROOT); } if (!defined('PIWIK_USER_PATH')) { define('PIWIK_USER_PATH', PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH); } ``` ## Steps to Reproduce (for Bugs) Create a /bootstrap.php-file with this content: `define('PIWIK_USER_PATH', $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/my-new-path-to-matomo-config/');` Move config.ini.php to $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/my-new-path-to-matomo-config/' call /misc/cron/archive.php => Warning: Constant PIWIK_USER_PATH already defined in ...\matomo\bootstrap.php on line 1 => cron-job is not working, instead the installation-page is shown ## Context I'm moving the config-file to another location, because I want to use matomo on different servers and don't want to override the config.ini.php on updates.