使用cron job在localhost上运行php脚本

Question

I am trying to set up a cron job on my localhost to call a php script every half an hour 24/7. Following are my steps:

1) I have created a cron.php file to call myscript.php:

<?php

echo exec('*/30 * * * * C:\BitNami\wampstack-5.4.21-0\php -f C:\BitNami\wampstack-5.4.21-0\apache2\htdocs\myscript.php');

?>

2) Created a cron.bat file to run the cron.php on browser:

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" "localhost\cron.php"

3) Then I have set up a windows 7 task scheduler to call cron.bat every day.

I welcome any idea on how to set up a cron job as my approach doesn't do anything.

Thanks

Answer 1

This is not an answer, but only pointers you need to check before you proceed further.

1. Crons are available only on unix systems, not windows.

2. While debugging cron or anything similar, schedule them for every minute or (any such acceptable smaller frequency), and once they work every minute, only then schedule them for the original frequencies. That will save you some time during debugging.

3. Its an incorrect call to exec. You don't have to pass all those * in it

4. Since this is windows, You want to do php.exe and not C:\BitNami\wampstack-5.4.21-0\php -f which would have been done in linux (with proper path)

5. Your .bat file is currently scheduled daily, you need to schedule it every half hour.