Custom Laravel Artisan command not available through cron job

Question

I have custom Artisan commands that run locally as well as on my production server when I am SSH'd in, but are unavailable to any cron jobs. I've even tried running it as the user the cron job runs as and it works fine from my console.

When I run php artisan in the above settings, my custom commands are listed and available. However, they are not listed when I run php artisan as a cron job.

Furthermore, trying to run the custom command php artisan subjects:calculate as a cron job results in the following error:

[InvalidArgumentException]
There are no commands defined in the "subjects" namespace.

Answer 1

I was fighting with the same error and I found the solution. First failed attempts

*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/php /home/mysite/public_html/artisan my:command

*/5 * * * * php /home/mysite/public_html/artisan my:command

Solution

*/5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/php /home/mysite/public_html/artisan my:command