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Zack Tanner
Zack Tanner

Reputation: 2590

Windows Scheduled Task not working for PHP script

I'm using Windows Server 2003 to try and execute a PHP script every day at 9AM. Here's the command inside of run:

"C:\Program Files\Zend\ZendServer\bin\php.exe" C:\Program Files\Zend\Apache2\htdocs\signout\teachernotify.php

It's supposed to execute the PHP script above which is supposed to e-mail me, but it doesn't work. Accessing the script above through a browser works, but not through Scheduled Tasks.

When I run it through the task scheduler, it goes through like something happened, but it doesn't appear to work.

Any advice?

Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4356

Answers (1)

Mark Wilkins
Mark Wilkins

Reputation: 41232

It sounds like it could be a permissions problem. When run through Apache via a web browser, the permissions would be based on whatever permissions Apache is running under. As a scheduled task, the permissions are based on the user specified for the task.

Make sure that the user specified in the "Run as" field in the task settings dialog has permissions to send an email.

Based on your most recent comment, it seems the problem is that the filename needs double quotes around it. I failed to notice that in the original question. 

"C:\Program Files\Zend\ZendServer\bin\php.exe" "C:\Program Files\Zend\Apache2\htdocs\signout\teachernotify.php"

Upvotes: 1

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