Setting up a cron job with Webmin

Question

I am trying to setup a Cron job using Webmin to run every 5 min. It needs to target a .php file and run the php script in that file. When I enter the path to the file in the \

Answer 1

im guessing you are running a linux environment. in that case you can run the command (through ssh/terminal) php /path/to/file.php.

If this works, then now the trick is to make this a scheduled command. You can do this with crontab by typing crontab -e This will then open a text editor which you can type something of the following:

@hourly php /path/to/file.php >/dev/null 2>&1

This will then run the command php /path/to/file.php every hour and detatch the process.

This is the linux way of doing it, webmin may have a way of doing this through the web ui. maybe that is what you are asking?