Magento 2.1.3 unable to reindex using SSH

Question

I tried the instructions under Magento 2 Reindexing - One or more indexers are invalid. Make sure your Magento cron job is running

but am still unable to reindex. I ssh'd into my webserver and tried running the command that was suggested from the root, php bin/magento indexer:reindex but it didn't work, so I tried going to the directory "blahblah.com"/shop/bin$ magento indexer:reindex

-bash: magento: command not found (I have a /shop directory where my files are installed)

and I tried magento indexer:status (and some others but am not able to run the commands, keep getting command not found)

I also opened up the file manager, found the magento file, opened it up and searched for indexer but am not finding it either.

Can someone help me to understand how I can reindex the status under the Index Management of my magento site? Thanks.

Answer 1

You either run the command as:

php magento indexer:reindex

Or you can make the magento script executable:

chmod +x magento

After making the script excutable you can run the script as:

./magento indexer:reindex

Your magento file should look like the following:

#!/usr/bin/env php
<?php
/**
 * Copyright © 2013-2017 Magento, Inc. All rights reserved.
 * See COPYING.txt for license details.
 */

if (PHP_SAPI !== 'cli') {
    echo 'bin/magento must be run as a CLI application';
    exit(1);
}

try {
    require __DIR__ . '/../app/bootstrap.php';
} catch (\Exception $e) {
    echo 'Autoload error: ' . $e->getMessage();
    exit(1);
}
try {
    $handler = new \Magento\Framework\App\ErrorHandler();
    set_error_handler([$handler, 'handler']);
    $application = new Magento\Framework\Console\Cli('Magento CLI');
    $application->run();
} catch (\Exception $e) {
    while ($e) {
        echo $e->getMessage();
        echo $e->getTraceAsString();
        echo "\n\n";
        $e = $e->getPrevious();
    }
    exit(Magento\Framework\Console\Cli::RETURN_FAILURE);
}