	How To Configure Cron Jobs?
	Discussion by Ousk with 7 Replies. Last Update: March 19, 2009, 10:17 am


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Ousk

Ok so i have seen the topic about this and in cpanel chose advanced and wrote /usr/local/bin/php -q /home/*myusername*/public_html/cron.php in the field and 40 in the minute slot in front, but with no luck, still the cron job for drupal does not run. Why?

Sun Mar 15, 2009 Reply

Nabb

Try this: wget -O - -q -t 1 http://your.website.com/cron.php

And for the timing - I don't see how you would need to run cron more than once a day, so probably pick any values for minute/hour and *'s for the other fields.

Sun Mar 15, 2009 Reply

Ousk

not working but thx for the reply

Sun Mar 15, 2009 Reply

Pankyy

The real deal to me is, in the Advanced Mode:

* * * * * (Set to which hour, etc, date) : curl http://URL.com

Try if that works for you, it works for me.

Sun Mar 15, 2009 Reply

Ousk

don't really get what i should enter i tried it but.. no results i think i'll just use poormanscron

Mon Mar 16, 2009 Reply

freeflashclocks

I would apreciate if anyone could help a litle more please, i too must know how to create cron jobs, i did not search the internet yeat because i wanted to get help over here, so if anyone could explain how , i apreciate it, i have a wordpress blog which needs a cron job because of a plugin i have, and it gave a code create a cron job, but i do not know where to execute or insert that code for the cron job.

Can anyone tell me where i do execute code already given to create a cron job?

Mon Mar 16, 2009 Reply

BuffaloHELP

I'm assuming cron.php contains list of instructions? Remember that cron itself has standard commands such as copy, "cp" with command extensions, i.e. r for replace etc.

And the correct path name you should use is

/home/cpanel_name/public_html/cron.php

if the file you want to execute is within public_html folder.

/home/cpanel_name/cron.php

if the file is located outside public_html folder.

A simple example to copy a file over, writing over the existing file from location A to B:

cp -rf /home/cpanel_name/public_html/A/filename /home/cpanel_name/B/

Notice that I can copy outside of the public_html because /home/cpanel_name/ is my root directory. The same file name will be preserved and the existing file in location B will be overwritten without confirmation. This can be entered directly to Cron job using Standard method. No need to enter Unix command form.

Mon Mar 16, 2009 Reply

Ousk

hmm now it works with the /usr/local/bin/php -q /home/*myusername*/public_html/cron.php don't know why it didn't before. i use
0 12 * * * /usr/local/bin/php -q /home/*myusername*/public_html/cron.php and it runs every 12 hours

Thu Mar 19, 2009 Reply


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