Setting Up A Cronjob In Windows Xampp

Question

Help needed to set up this command in my Xampp windows server

0 * * * *     cd C:/xampp/htdocs/plugins/moviefeed/ && php cron.php

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Answer 1

You can easily create a .bat file where you define your schedule task for windows. Regarding your needs..

set doc=C:\xampp\htdocs\project
cd "%doc%"
copy /y nul "file.php"
ECHO ^ >file.php
schtasks /create /tn "Cron" /tr "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe http://play.local/fisierul.php" /st minute /mo 10

What I did here is:

• I changed the path to "project" directory from "htdocs"
• I create a file "file.php" (if it doesn't exists)
• I write a simple echo into the "file.php" file
• And I create a new scheduler task (similar to cron jobs in Unix) wich will open my mozilla browser and access that url every 10 minutes.

Note: to stop a scheduler task you must go in cmd and type

schtasks /delete /tn "Cron"

Good luck dude!