Cpanel Cronjobs

CPanel Cronjobs

This section will guide you through the process of setting up cronjobs for EasySocial using cPanel. If your hosting provide do provide you with cPanel, this guide is definitely for you.

Accessing cPanel

To access the cronjobs section on your cPanel, you just need to click on the cronjob icon highlighted in the screenshot below:

Getting Notified

This step is very important and you should set this up so that you check if the cronjob is executing correctly. To setup the email notification for the cronjob, enter your email address as shown in the screenshot below:

Creating the Cronjob

Once the notification have been setup, you will want to now create the cronjob. To setup cronjob, follow the steps below:

Choose ther interval for the cronjob to get executed.

• Common Settings
  This allows you to select a commonly used interval. (Recommended Every 5 Minutes)
• Minute
  This sets the cronjob to execute at every x minutes.
• Hour
  This sets the cronjob to execute at every x hour.
• Day
  This sets the cronjob to execute at every x day.
• Month
  This sets the cronjob to execute at every x day.
• Weekday
  This sets the cronjob to execute at selected weekdays.

• Command
  This field allows you to set the command for cPanel to execute.

  /bin/wget -O /dev/null "http://yoursite.com/index.php?option=com_easysocial&cron=1"