cron tab不工作php

Question

I added a cronjob by entering this command - crontab -e. I added the following tasks in that file-

*/5 * * * * /var/www/web/vendors/shells/aggregated_deals.php
*/5 * * * * /var/www/web/vendors/shells/deals.php

These are php scripts. after that i restarted the apache server,but these scripts are not executing. And syslog log file is empty. please help me to run this cron.

Answer 1

I don't think you can execute a PHP file by calling it like that, I always use a curl:

*/5 * * * * curl http://domain.com/page

Or I guess you could run it using the php command itself if you don't want to use the web server:

*/5 * * * * php /var/www/web/vendors/shells/aggregated_deals.php

What ever you type after the stars in the crontab rule will be the command execute against the system. If you run the command "/var/www/web/vendors/shells/aggregated_deals.php" in terminal I bet nothing happens...you need to invoke this as a PHP script.