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Abdullah Alsharif
Abdullah Alsharif

Reputation: 543

Using WGET to run a cronjob PHP

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?

Upvotes: 53

Views: 164405

Answers (5)

angelrove
angelrove

Reputation: 41

If you want get output only when php fail:

*/5 * * * * php -r 'echo file_get_contents(http://www.example.com/cronit.php);'

Or more secure:

*/5 * * * * php /var/www/example/cronit.php

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

Upvotes: 4

Hammad Ahmed khan
Hammad Ahmed khan

Reputation: 1671

you can just use this code to hit the script using cron job using cpanel:

wget https://www.example.co.uk/unique-code

Upvotes: 1

Mosiur
Mosiur

Reputation: 1352

I tried following format, working fine

*/5 * * * * wget --quiet -O /dev/null http://localhost/cron.php

Upvotes: 5

Emil Vikström
Emil Vikström

Reputation: 91983

wget -O- http://www.example.com/cronit.php >> /dev/null

This means send the file to stdout, and send stdout to /dev/null

Upvotes: 19

James C
James C

Reputation: 14169

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

Upvotes: 109

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