如何在/ var / www / from / etc / crontab中运行PHP页面？

Question

I want to to run php page which is in root folder /var/www/ in a particular time daily. My www director is 755 permission.

I am doing cron job in /etc/crontab as an admin for mysqldump. Its working fine there. But this time I want to run particular page in /etc/crontab. And I failed to make it work after spending lots of time research.

Following is what I did in /etc/crontab.

14 36 * * *   root /usr/bin/php /var/www/mysite/page.php

What I want is, At 14:36HOURS, I want /etc/crontab to run page /var/www/mysite/page.php. And do necessary things i.e updating in mySQL database.

Answer 1

Try

36 14 * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/mysite/page.php

The format for crontab is minutes, hours, Day of month, month, Day of week

If you want to run your cron as root, use sudo when editing cron

sudo crontab -e