Using WGET to run a cronjob PHP

Question

I tried to do a cron and run a url every 5 mintues   I tried to use WGET however I dont want to download the files on the server  all I want is just to run it   This is what I used  crontab      5         wget http   www example com cronit php   Is there any other command to use other than wget to just run the url and not downlaod it

User · Answer

If you want get output only when php fail:

php -r 'echo file_get_contents(http://www.example.com/cronit.php);'

This way you receive an email from cronjob only when the script fails and not whenever the php is called.

User · Answer

you can just use this code to hit the script using cron job using cpanel  wget https   www example co uk unique-code

User · Answer

I tried following format  working fine    5         wget --quiet -O  dev null http   localhost cron php

User · Answer

wget -O- http   www example com cronit php  gt  gt   dev null   This means send the file to stdout  and send stdout to  dev null

User · Answer

You could tell wget to not download the contents in a couple of different ways   wget --spider http   www example com cronit php   which will just perform a HEAD request but probably do what you want  wget -O  dev null http   www example com cronit php   which will save the output to  dev null  a black hole   You might want to look at wget s -q switch too which prevents it from creating output  I think that the best option would probably be   wget -q --spider http   www example com cronit php   that s unless you have some special logic checking the HTTP method used to request the page

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