[SOLVED] Cron script issue

Hello,
we mopoved to version 12.1.1 the cron stops more frequentlty in this version for us.
we were using the cron script ( the standard cron script provided here in the forum ) to activate the cron automatiquely when it stops. We noticed that in this version the cron script does not work any more and it sends the flolowing error ( image file joined ).
Thank you for your help and assistance.

Thank you for your reply.
Do you need the actual version of PHP on which we are working ?

thank you

Hi,

The problem is when the script call Projeqtor APIs (Cron/check and Cron/start)  using this URL https://projeqtor_host/projeqtor/api/index.php?uri=Cron/check, we got error 302 from the apache server as mentionned below: 
"""
[auth_basic:error] [pid 3037303] [client 37.60.228.139:43642] AH01617: user projeqtor_cron: authentication failure for "/projeqtor/api/index.php": Password Mismatch
"""
The user is created on projeqtoria and the password is encrypted and defined in .htpasswd and also added into the script for authentication.

The script was working and we didn't change the user credentials but then suddenly we got this authentication failure.