Run a PHP file in a cron job using CPanel

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I am just trying to run a PHP script using a cron job within CPanel - is this the correct syntax    usr bin php -q  home username public html cron cron php  gt  dev null   I am not getting any email notifications stating a cron has been completed  do I need to do anything specific with the PHP file

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In crontab system      usr bin php is php binary path  different in some systems ex  freebsd  usr local bin php  linux   usr bin php   home username public html cron cron php should be your php script path  dev null should be cron output   ex   home username stdoutx txt   So you can monitor your cron by viewing cron output  home username stdoutx txt

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I ve had problems using  usr bin php on CPanel as it is compiled as a  cgi-fcgi  binary and not  cli    Try using  usr local bin php or  as it is first in the path anyway  just use  php  instead   php  path to script php   If you want to run the script as an executable  give it  x perms and use the following as the first line of the script      usr bin env php

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This works fine and also sends email    usr bin php  home xxYourUserNamexx public html xxYourFolderxx xxcronfile php  The following two commands also work fine but do not send email    usr bin php -f  home Same As Above  php -f  home Same As Above

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For domain specific Multi PHP Cron Job  do like this    usr local bin ea-php56  home username domain path path to cron script   In the above example  replace    ea-php56    with the PHP version assigned to the domain you wish to use   Hope this helps someone

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I used this command to activate cron job for this    usr bin php -q  home username public html yourfilename php   on godaddy server  and its working fine

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This is the way    usr bin php -q  home username public html yourfilename php  gt  dev null

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This cron line worked for me on hostgator VPS using cpanel    usr bin php -q  home username public html scriptname php

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gt  dev null stops cron from sending mails   actually to my mind it s better to make php script itself to care about it s logging rather than just outputting something to cron

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It is actually very simple   php -q  home username public html cron cron php

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Suggested By Experts    usr local bin php  home username public html path to cron script

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This is the easiest way   php -f  home your username public html script php  And if you want to log the script output to a file  add this to the end of the command    gt  gt   home your username logs someFile txt 2 gt  amp 1

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On a Hostgator CPANEL this worked for me  php  home here your user name public html cronJob php

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I hope your problem is with path  amp  php binary as well  If you have fixed the path as per older answers  please use php-cli instead of php command while running cron job   It may be possible php sapi name   is not returning cli  Its returning something else like cgi-fcgi etc    usr bin php-cli -q  home username public html cron cron php  gt  dev null  I hope it will help

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