Godaddy cron job setup for running php script

Question

can you help me setup cron job on godaddy webhosting? I have php file that i need to run, it is located in cron subdirectory (so address is http://test.com/cron/file.php). What

Answer 1

NOTE: GoDaddy has been migrating all hosting packages over to cPanel. The itemized instructions below are for the older GoDaddy interface. The command is still the same.

At the time of this writing, on GoDaddy shared hosting, i could NOT use the following commands: ping, curl, nc, lynx

but i COULD use: wget

I successfully created a cron job using wget to load a PHP file containing a call to mail().

1. log into your GoDaddy account
2. click to expand the "Web Hosting" section and find the server in question
3. click the "Manage" button (it used to be labeled "Launch")
4. on the "Hosting Details" page in "Tools" section, click "Cron Job Manager" button
5. on the "Cron Job Manager" page, click "Create Cron Job" button
6. enter the title you want and select the frequency (1 hour is the most frequent allowed EDIT: GoDaddy has added 15-minute increments to the frequency choices.)
7. enter the command below (with your info):

wget http://YOUR_DOMAIN/YOUR_PATH/YOUR_PHP_FILE.php > /dev/null 2>&1

edit: as noted by Leandro, this is the method to make a cron job call a remote or local resource -- consult GoDaddy documentation if you want to call a resource locally only (which is also more secure if you're running more sensitive jobs)

in "YOUR_PHP_FILE.php" code all the actions you want to be performed and include a call to mail() (or whichever mail method you may want to use assuming you have configured that properly).

By using mail() the SMTP relay server will already be set properly in the "php.ini" file to: relay-hosting.secureserver.net -- which you can confirm using phpinfo().