I schedule a new job on cronjob. But it's not working. Is there any way to run cronjob in cpanel using commands.
There is a bunch of way to running script with CRON. I do use this way on my web application most of the time when I need to use CRON.
The first step is to choose a setting. The setting means when you want to run this script.
and after then simply just use CURL with Cron to get this work properly like this: curl http://example.com/script.php on command box and click on the add button and whola! You have successfully added your first CRON Task.
You may have a look at this picture below to get it properly
Go to CRON JOB option on your cpanle menus
Set url like this and set time according to your functionality
php /home/username/public_html/filename.php
Run it in putty
/usr/bin/php /var/www/html/project_name/artisan schedule:run 1>> /dev/null 2>&1 this is for laravel project
you can simply use like this - /usr/local/bin/ea-php74 /home/username/domainname.com/script_path/yourfile.php
replace username to your cpanel username, domain name to your domain name, script path where you want to run it, then replace the main file for corn job in yourfile.php
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First time I am creating a cron job in cpPanel to run a PHP file every hour.
My cron command is:
/usr/local/bin /home/simplemediaplaye/public_html/new.php
What things am I missing here? This file runs well manually, but not by a cron job. Can you suggest what I need to do to run my cron successfully?
Hello If I am not mistaking, you're missing the "-q" command and PHP ? see below:
/usr/bin/php -q /home/simplemediaplaye/public_html/new.php
Let me know if that helps.
I need your help here.
I wrote one PERL script for PHP application which needs to be run for every 5 mins.
This script will call PHP program, which will fetch data from MySQL DB and will generate a excel report and will mail those reports to specific users.
Every thing seems to be fine when I ran this script manually with the command (perl reports.pl).
But when I set this Perl in a cron tab, nothing works and reports are not getting generated.
Details: perl script path /opt/app/deweb/web/EDI/Microsoft/reports.pl
this script will call PHP program (/opt/app/deweb/web/EDI/Microsoft/reports.php)
content of script
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use Net::FTP;
use File::Copy;
use POSIX;
#errorreport = `php /opt/app/deweb/web/EDI/Microsoft/reports.php`;
print "#errorreport\n";
exit;
It is working perfectly when running Manually using command - perl reports.pl
No results, when set in CRON:
*/5 7-19 * * * /usr/local/bin/perl /opt/app/deweb/web/EDI/Microsoft/reports.pl
Please note that this crontab is under super user account named webserv and my login is having access to edit under this super user account.
I'm editing this cron tab using command :: sudo -u webserv crontab -e
I would check the following:
Does it run using sudo -u webserv perl reports.pl? If not, fix the problem for the webserv user (permissions or whatever) and it should work via cron too.
Does which perl using your login give you /usr/local/bin/perl? If not, change the path to Perl in crontab to what you got in which perl to fix the problem.
I found myself to be in the same situtation. After trying to find out the reason, I am almost sure about the reason this happens. Crontab does not have the same environment variables as you when running the script. You must be sure about paths. Try for example run your script like /perl-path /path-to-perl-script/script.pl outside the parent directory of the script and I am almost sure that your programm will not find some files. And as you call one php script from the perl script, it's possible to have the same problem with paths to your php script too.
So the solution is to use absolute paths and no relative.
Also at your perl script don't use php but /full-path-to-php for example:
#errorreport = /usr/bin/php /opt/app/deweb/web/EDI/Microsoft/reports.php;
I wanted to implement two cronjobs with different execution time. One cron job is for sending emails and second cron job for validating my application subscriptions.
I write one crontab file and write to two cronjob as follows:
2 * * * * path to mailCronjob mail.php
20 * * * * path to check my application's subscriptions sub.php
The problem is first cronjob is working fine. Mail will delivers fine, but the second cronjob
is not working. I tried to run second job manually, its also working fine.
I am using command to set cronjob as:
crontab crontab_file
when I give command crontab -l
it also shows both cronjob in command line.
I wanted to ask, am I missing something here, or what should I do to run those cronjobs.
FACT: you can run as many cron jobs from a single crontab file as you wish.
FACT: you can also run different jobs as different users, each with their own crontab file.
SUGGESTION:
1) Just debug what's wrong with your second job.
2) It could be path, it could be permissions; it's more than likely environment (the environment for "cron" can be different from the environment for the same user from a command line).
PS:
Try this, too:
How to simulate the environment cron executes a script with?
Debugging crontab jobs
Check the owning user's email and see if an error report has been sent to it.
If you need to be a certain user and have that user's environment change your call to
su - -c "/path/to/sub.php" SubScriptUser
If your script only works from a certain directory use
cd /path/to/ && ./sub.php
I recall the same problem. For some reason, I had to press enter after my second cron job. Even in the first cron job, if it is the only job, needs a CR/LF (enter). Cursor needs to be on second line (if there is one cron job)... cursor needs to be on the third line, if there is two cron jobs. I guess, needs to read the file completely to interpret the cron job command. I just share this, because if you dont do that, only the first job will be executed, and skips the second one totally unless enter is pressed at the end of the second job. Best regards and cheers... Test that and let us know.
You need to add an empty line to the end of the config file
I never did 2 actuall cronjobs in one cron-tab file, but rather had the one cronjob execute every 15 minutes and query the database or look into a config file what tasks are there to execute, maybe this concept helps you.
I have two php files. In one php file there is simple html form in which I created some drop down for select time and days for cronjob when user set time and day and submit form then all the drop down values stored in database.
Now with the help of this stored values I need to set cronjob and when cron will execute then it run another php file in which I write some code for generate xml file.
And this file run every time which time is stored by user in database.
By using Cpanel I can do that but I don't want to use cpanel.
Please give me some proper and working solution, I really need it.
Thanks in advance.
Use phps system() or exec() function to call the crontab command to replace or modify the existing crontab for the account the web server runs under. You might have to make sure that user is allowed to use the cron system, this depends on the operating system you use.
From within the crontab you can use one of two strategies to run a php script_
- call the php cli interpreter like any normal command, so something like: /usr/bin/php and give it the script to interpret. As an alternative you also can use shebang inside your php script and call it as a simple executable.
- use wget to call an url pointing to your webserver (maybe localhost) when you want to execute the script inside your web server.
This might act as a starting point for you to experiment with:
#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
// the time tokens to be fed into the crontab line
$time=array('10','*','*','*','*');
// the actual command to be executed
$command=sprintf("crontab -l | (cat;echo \"%s\t%s\") | crontab",
implode(' ',$time),
'/usr/bin/beep');
// execute command
$result=system($command);
// output result of execution
if ($result)
echo "Result: $result\n";
else
echo "FAILURE!\n";
?>
Works for me when called from CLI.
I want to execute a script every 30mins, but i want to use it through cron as it is my personal script which emails me updates from various sites depending on configurations.
So what should i write in Command to run in cpanel to execute my script with name check.php
You could also try:
wget http://www.example.com/check.php
as then your script will run in exactly the same way it would on the website (environment variables, file permissions etc will be the same).
The format is something like this. Eactly the same as if you were trying to run the command from the terminal.
php_location full_script_location output_location
So for example on my server I would use something like this:
/usr/bin/php /home/yacoby/status/check.php
You need to make sure your email address is set correctly.
If you don't want it to email you the output from the script (i.e. you want to log it, or do the emailing from within the script), put > /dev/null at the end of the command. eg.
/usr/bin/php /home/yacoby/status/check.php > /dev/null