Cron Jobs

abhinav_shah

I have a script called xyz.php.
It's path is http://www.abhinav.frih.net/xyz.php
Now I want to run this script as a cron job every minute,hour,day,month.
Can anyone tell me what path should I give in the Command field in the DirectAdmin/Advanced Tools/Cron Jobs.

ml

the command must be

Grimboy

Make sure to put it in a directory that you put a password restriction on so that it can't be executed over the internet users.

charliehk

do you mean don't put in under public_html?

Is that all we have to do?

Why must we set a password restriction? If so, should we set the password restriction so that only the owner of the cron job could execute the php script?

How to do the set up? Could you give an example?

thanks a lot!!!

Grimboy

Yeah, just don't put it in public_html. But if you do you can use a .httpconfig password thingy with no passwords to stop it being served to users.

JustaMin

You would set up a passwrod protected directory using .htaccess and .htpasswd and keep your cron scripts in there. To run them, you would use a comand such as:

avk

Hey!!
What do u mean by cron jobs!!

U see
I dont know what it means

charliehk

thank you for your code, it is brilliant and elegant!

by the way, cron job is Linux scheduled jobs, just like the scheduled job (the command is "at") in Windows NT.

thnn

You could put the cronjob file in a directory in the directory before your public_html folder. Then you can call it using the full path. Also this way it cannot be access by anyone.

srijit

err.... where exactely can i add the cron job in DirectAdmin. i cant find the area Sad

edit: i found that cron jobs are OFF. is that permanent? or do we have to request to enable cron jobs?

n0obie4life

You have to post a request in this forum to enable your cron jobs.

http://www.frihost.com/forums/vf-7.html

srijit

charliehk

Do we have to post a number of replies before we could have the privilege to use cron jobs? And are there any limitations imposed?