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Nick Heiner
Nick Heiner

Reputation: 122450

Cron on XAMPP (windows)

I am developing a site locally using xampp. I would like to configure cron, so the dev environment is the same as the production environment. However, my system is windows vista. Is there any way to do this, or am I forced to accept that my dev and production environments will be forks?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 11825

Answers (3)

crosenblum
crosenblum

Reputation: 1927

Btw this is a really good question...there are a lot of good scheduled task apps out there. The 1 I liked is Visual Cron at http://www.visualcron.com/

Running a scheduled task, is a very tough thing for web server/web apps to do...Because they have to check every x seconds or minutes to see if a task needs to be done, which can suck up cpu cycles for your web server/apps.

Which is why i prefer using an os based task scheduler or os task scheduling software, better performance I believe.

One trick that I had learned, was using php's -f command to create scheduled tasks without having to open a browser window, then it can run tasks...

On window's systems the only other way was opening up ie/firefox/opera whatever to run your web-based task..

good luck!

Upvotes: 2

Jeremy French
Jeremy French

Reputation: 12157

You could create a windows scheduled task to run cron.php (or call it in the browser).

Upvotes: 0

TheJacobTaylor
TheJacobTaylor

Reputation: 4143

I would highly recommend looking into Cygwin. I was using that when I wanted linux/unix utilities on Windows. It supports Cron as well.

Jacob

Upvotes: 3

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