I'm having some trouble with the cron jobs in a EC2 instance on a Elastic Beanstalk environment.

When I connect to the EC2 instance and I type php artisan command:backup_logs from the terminal, the job runs smoothly and everything works as it should. While, when the job runs through the cron * * * * * /usr/bin/php /var/app/current/artisan command:backup_logs it returns the following error in the logs:

[2018-09-17 16:14:01] production.ERROR: Missing required client configuration options:

region: (string)

  A "region" configuration value is required for the "s3" service

  (e.g., "us-west-2"). A list of available public regions and endpoints can be
  found at http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html. {"exception":"[object] (InvalidArgumentException(code: 0): Missing required client configuration options:

region: (string)

  A \"region\" configuration value is required for the \"s3\" service
  (e.g., \"us-west-2\"). A list of available public regions and endpoints can be
  found at http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html. at /var/app/current/vendor/aws/aws-sdk-php/src/ClientResolver.php:371)
[stacktrace]
#0 /var/app/current/vendor/aws/aws-sdk-php/src/ClientResolver.php(267): Aws\\ClientResolver->throwRequired(Array)
#1 /var/app/current/vendor/aws/aws-sdk-php/src/AwsClient.php(158): Aws\\ClientResolver->resolve(Array, Object(Aws\\HandlerList))
#2 /var/app/current/vendor/aws/aws-sdk-php/src/S3/S3Client.php(261): Aws\\AwsClient->__construct(Array)
#3 /var/app/current/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/FilesystemManager.php(208): Aws\\S3\\S3Client->__construct(Array)
#4 /var/app/current/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/FilesystemManager.php(125): Illuminate\\Filesystem\\FilesystemManager->createS3Driver(Array)
........

It gives a PRODUCTION error on laravel.log, while this is DEVELOPMENT, and the value is looking for is already set. As I mentioned earlier the upload works fine when I run it from the terminal as a logged user.

I am having the same problem with all the commands and also when I want to run the jobs through the schedule, the same error happens.

Anyone who can shed some light please? Thank you very much!

Solution

So to fix this, just create a config file in the .ebextensions folder and paste the following YAML code:

files:
  "/etc/cron.d/artisan_scheduler":
     mode: "000644"
     owner: root
     group: root
     content: |
       * * * * * ec2-user . $HOME/.bash_profile; php /var/app/current/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1