cron job question

Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 10:00 am Post subject: cron job question

Hi,

How would I go about running these 2 address as cron jobs ?

http://xxx.xxx.com/cron.php?xx=on

/home/username/public_html/xxx/cron.php?xx=on

http://xxx.xxx.com/cron.php?xx=off

/home/username/public_html/xxx/cron.php?xx=off

Also would it be possible to run it from
/home/username/cron.php?xx=XXX ?

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 5684

Hi,

To run a URL as a cron job use wget or lynx e.g.:

lynx -source http://xxxxxx.com/

to run a php file directly use php itself e.g.:

php -q /home/username/cron.php

Thanks,

Andrew

Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 11:38 am Post subject:

Hi,

Thanks Andrew

Just like to confirm which I am 99.999999999999999% sure of, that files in /home/username are security and can only be seen via full FTP access or in cPanel file manager

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 5684

Hi,

No problem.

Files located in /home/username/ are not accessible over the web directly so this is a more secure location than placing them in your public_html folder.

Thanks,

Andrew

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