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

I'll add nothing new but just a test case. Using the Task Scheduler GUI would be troublesome/unnecessary for a simple cron job, so this demo uses .bat files. What the demo does is just increment the number in the "counter.txt" by 1 every minute.

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Created a "cron" folder in "htdocs" with these files:

• counter.txt
• index.php
• schtask_add.bat
• schtask_del.bat
• schtask_query.bat

Contents of the files:

counter.txt

0

index.php

schtask_add.bat

@echo off
schtasks /Create /TN XAMPP /TR "C:/xampp/php/php-win.exe C:/xampp/htdocs/cron/index.php" /SC MINUTE /MO 1
pause

schtask_del.bat

@echo off
schtasks /Delete /TN XAMPP /F
pause

schtask_query

@echo off
schtasks /Query /TN XAMPP
pause

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Tested with XAMPP 7.1.11 on Windows 10 (64-bit).

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Schtasks.exe | Microsoft Docs

Schtasks - Scheduled tasks - Windows CMD - SS64.com

PHP: CLI and CGI - Manual (php.exe vs php-win.exe)