Hello,
I've just set up a Moodle 2.3.2 site on a GoDaddy VDS and would like to duplicate the cron job I had in shared Linux hosting, but on a VDS, where the critical path is different. Hopefully the actual cron job syntax isn't. The domain name is gurq.net and the directory that the auto-install of Plesk created is /site2. My approximation at getting this right is:
/var/www/vhosts/gurq.net/cgi-bin/php5_3 "$HOME/site2/admin/cli/cron.php"
The part up to /cgi-bin I got from critical paths information provided by GoDaddy. The php5_3 part I stuck in since that was what was at the end of the old cron job command that worked. Not at all sure of the part after the quotation marks with a VDS. /site2 is where the moodle installation is sitting. Any tweaks of this to get it working would be appreciated. By the way, I contacted GoDaddy's normally helpful staff, but this time they told me to "see my server administrator", which in my case means I should see myself.
My variation on the above command, after reading the appropriate cron job description at moodle.org and looking again at GoDaddy critical path information, is:
/var/www/vhosts/gurq.net/cgi-bin/php5_3 "/var/www/vhosts/gurq.net/site2/admin/cli/cron.php"