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

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?

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

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.

Here is an example of the wget script in action:

wget -q -O /dev/null "http://example.com/cronjob.php" > /dev/null 2>&1

Using -O parameter like the above means that the output of the web request will be sent to STDOUT (standard output).

And the >/dev/null 2>&1 will instruct standard output to be redirected to a black hole. So no message from the executing program is returned to the screen.

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

I try GET 'http://example.com/?var=value' Important use ' add >/dev/null 2>&1 for not send email when this activate Sorry for my English

Use cURL:

*/5 * * * * curl http://example.com/check/

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&param2=2'

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

 >/dev/null 2>&1