bartoinc

I understand what a cron job is, but I don't know how it is exactly setup. I went to Cron Jobs and selected my timeline (that was easy), as for the command to run, there is a file I have on my site that I need to run. Do I simply put the file location in the command line? IE- www.myweb.com/dir/cron.file.php

I would be great if that is all I have to do. If anyone could affirm that's all I have to do, great. If not, let me know what I need to do.

Thanx in advance.

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FredFredrickson

That will not execute your php script for you. I'm pretty sure dumping a php script will run it though. Try this:

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PsyberS

Well it depends on if you want to run a remote or a local PHP script. PHP actually has a commandline based interpreter which (I believe) is at /usr/bin/php so you can run a local PHP script like this:

/usr/bin/php /path/to/your/script.php

Of course that may not be what you want. When running locally it does not go through apache and it isn't really considered like a webpage. Use lynx if you want it to act like a webpage.