Cron jobs in cpanel - Help

Hi,

I have a shared account and want to set up a cron job to run a script once a day.

Way I understand it, you go to cpanel > Cron jobs > Standard and then choose the times you want.

My question is, what do I put into the box labelled 'Command to run'? Do I just put in the path to the script I want to run, like this?

http://www.mydomain.com/directory/scriptname.php

Or is it something else altogether?

I know zip about unix, linux, C, php and anything else you care to mention!

Your help is much appreciated!

Best regards,
Jill

[twisty]

For PHP scripts, like this:

/usr/bin/php /home/useraccount/public_html/example.php

Thus, your script is called and run via the PHP interpreter (/usr/bin/php)

Note: Don't use URL's with this method, only paths.

[amartins]

I guess it will depend on the script so u should read the instructions anyway either php -q /path/script.php or usr/bin/GET http://site.com/script.php

Antonio.

Hi guys,

Thanks for your replies! I'll try out your suggestions.

Regards,
Jill

[stlewis]

Because this topic was left with a bit of a cliffhanger as to whether either suggestion actually worked, I wanted to say that Twisty's suggestion worked perfectly for me after an hour of messing around with other methods.

[calum]

Or you can visit it with a web browser like lynx:

lynx -dump http://www.yoursite.com/cron.php

But the result is the same.