PHP CRON Job within CodeIgniter framework
In your cron call you put:
wget -q -O /dev/null http://www.urlgoeshere.co.uk/index.php cron_event
I think it must be:
wget -q -O /dev/null http://www.urlgoeshere.co.uk/index.php/cron_event
Or:
wget -q -O /dev/null http://www.urlgoeshere.co.uk/cron_event
If you removed index.php from your URL.