CRON command to run URL address every 5 minutes

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I m newbie in cron commands and I need help   I have a script on http   example com check    Whats is command for cron to run this URL every 5 minutes   I tried        5          home test check php    But I want to run URL not relative script address  How to do it

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To run a URL simply use command below easy yess CPanel 100    usr bin php -q  home CpanelUsername public html RootFolder cronjob fetch php   I hope this help

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Nothing worked for me on my linux hosting  The only possible commands they provide are    usr local bin php absolute path to cron script   and    usr local bin ea-php56 absolute domain path path to cron script    This is how I made it to work  1  I created simple test php file with the following content   echo file get contents  http   example com check       2  I set the cronjob with the option server gived me using absolute inner path      usr local bin php absolute path to public html test php

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I find this solution to run a URL every 5 minutes from cPanel you can execute any task by this command    5          This on run At every 5th minute  so it only runs once in one hour Here is an example that i use to run my URL every second   5         curl http   www example com   sleep 5m  curl http   www example com    sleep 5m  curl http   www example com    sleep 5m  curl http   www example com    sleep 5m  curl http   www example com    sleep 5m  curl http   www example com    sleep 5m  curl http   www example com    sleep 5m  curl http   www example com    sleep 5m  curl http   www example com    sleep 5m  curl http   www example com    sleep 5m  curl http   www example com    sleep 5m  curl http   www example com     To sleep for 5 seconds  use  sleep 5  Want to sleep for 5 minutes  use  sleep 5m  Halt or sleep for 5 hours  use  sleep 5h  If you do not want any email of cron job just add this to end of the command   gt  dev null 2 gt  amp 1

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Here is an example of the wget script in action  wget -q -O  dev null  quot http   example com cronjob php quot   gt   dev null 2 gt  amp 1 Using -O parameter like the above means that the output of the web request will be sent to STDOUT  standard output   And the  gt  dev null 2 gt  amp 1 will instruct standard output to be redirected to a black hole  So no message from the executing program is returned to the screen

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I try GET  http   example com  var value  Important use    add  gt  dev null 2 gt  amp 1 for not send email when this activate Sorry for my English

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Use cURL     5         curl http   example com check

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The other advantage of using curl is that you also can keep the HTTP way of sending parameters to your script if you need to  by using   GET    POST etc like this     5         curl --request GET  http   exemple com path check php param1 1 amp param2 2

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Based on the comments try    5         wget http   example com check    Edit  10 Apr 2017   This answer still seems to be getting a few hits so I thought I d add a link to a new page I stumbled across which may help create cron commands  https   crontab guru

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To run a url  you need a program to get that url  You can try wget or curl  See manuals for available options

[php] CRON command to run URL address every 5 minutes

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