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
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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
As implied in the title, the Cron Job is supposed to execute a php file (update.php, to be specific). The php file then writes to a csv file stored in the same directory.
I have the time set to * * * * * so that it executes every minute. The command is written as follows:
php -q /home//public_html/wallboard/update.php
I don't believe this is causing any errors, though it also doesn't seem to write to the CSV file. When I visit update.php in a browser, however, it executes and writes to the CSV file immediately. I'm not experienced with Cron Jobs and I'm sure there's an issue, but I don't know what exactly that issue is. Let me know if you have suggestions/questions. Any help is appreciated!
Current Command:
* * * * * usr/bin/php -q /home/<user>/public_html/wallboard/update.php
update.php:
<?php
include('lib/HelpDeskView.php');
include('lib/WallboardDisplay.php');
include('helpdesk.csv');
$helpdesk = new HelpDeskView();
$text="\r\ntest,test,test";
file_put_contents( "helpdesk.csv" , $text, FILE_APPEND);
Since your script resides in your public_html directory you can use wget for your Cron Job
wget -O - -q https://yoursite.com/wallboard/update.php
-O - output is written to the standard output in this case it will go to the email address you specify in CPanel
-q quiet mode
IMHO the best way is to contact support and ask them about command line syntax.
This is how I'm doing it at my linux server using cPanel.
This runs script.php which is stored in public root. Course, replace <username> in command line with your username.
At another server I'm using same command line with /usr/bin/php instead of php at the beginning of line, but I'm aware that not all servers use same command line. Some require php-cli in command line instead of php, some don't "like" -f argument, etc. So try various combinations.
To find more suggestions check out this SO topic too: Run a PHP file in a cron job using CPanel
Important thing: When trying different commands wait at least a minute (this case) to see if it works because Cron doesn't fire your script immediately.
Try to execute the same command in PHP CLI and check if it gives you any error, you might be missing some libraries or references required for CLI execution.
/usr/bin/php -d register_argc_argv=On /home/USERNAME/public_html/DOMAIN/artisan AMIR:HOME
I have some executable PHP code that I'm trying to implement using cron jobs. The page sends a couple emails. It works just fine when I type in the address into my URL bar and load the page (the url is akin to www.mysite.com/mypage.php) but for some reason it doesn't work when I do it as part of a cron job. I have double checked the permissions and the file is executable, so that's not the issue. I am getting an email confirming that the cron job was completed, but the emails that are supposed to be sent by the program do not come through. Here is my code in crontabs:
SHELL= /bin/bash/
HOME = /
MAILTO = "mymail#gmail.com"
* * * * * /usr/bin/php /usr/share/nginx/html/mypage.php
Any idea why this might not be working?
EDIT ABOUT PERMISSIONS: Possibly relevant: I am editing cron jobs by typing 'sudo crontab -e'. I was able to successfully set up another cron job that just emails me text. However, I tried setting up another text-only-email cron job NOT in sudo (ie typing 'crontab -e') and that did not work. I didn't receive any emails. I also got an error when I typed 'crontab -e' about it not being able to read .nano_history and permission being denied but I was able to bypass that by pressing Enter
Check to see that wget is installed on your server. it should be. Then use wget to call your program from the cron tab. This way you do not have to concern yourself with calling php from the command line.
wget http://999.999.99.9/hr/stats/send_stats.php?task=first
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 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.