Cron jobs on a Win32 server

By larsbrink@blogger.com on 20 Feb 2003 at 14:28 UTC

I'm running Win32 (2000) on my server with PHP, Apache and MySQL (Linux is a jungle for me, so this was the way of getting the server up and running fairly easy).

How do I easiest make some Cron like scheduler in that environment?

Comments

Task scheduler

Steven commented 20 February 2003 at 18:42

I had a similar problem, and my solution was to set up a scheduled task that calls the commandline/cgi version of php to run a cron.php.
Windows' task scheduler is nasty though. You'll have to set up a daily job that repeats during 24 hours . Obviously using minutes/hours/whatever was too complicated for MS.

correction: too complicated for UnConeD

moshe weitzman commented 21 February 2003 at 05:25

If you are on the Schedule tab for a scheduled task (right click on a task to get there), you see a button called Advanced which leads to most of the tweaks you are used to.

If you only use the Scheduled Task Wizard you would never see this.

I thought that you couldn't call cron.php via CLI because the environment vars aren't setup properly. Has that changed?

Tried to call cron.php from the CLI

larsbrink@blogger.com commented 21 February 2003 at 09:10

I didn't succeed in this since I use the module version (php4apache2.dll) for my installation. I was thinking a simple solution with a browser open on the server that had a refrech interval of xx seconds which loaded the same page all the time.

Something like putting this in a page and add the cron.php into:
meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="[sek]; url=http://www.xxxx.dk/cron_hack.php"

Actually

Steven commented 21 February 2003 at 10:58

Actually I *was* referring to that dialog...

To make a task that repeats every 10 minutes, I have to:
- set it to start at 0:00
- set it to repeat every 10 minutes
- set it to do this during 24 hours (or up to 23:50)
- set it to do this every day

You don't think that's complicated? It's a daily job that repeats during 24 hours, like I said .