Using Wget to Run a Cronjob PHP

Using WGET to run a cronjob PHP

You could tell wget to not download the contents in a couple of different ways:

wget --spider http://www.example.com/cronit.php

which will just perform a HEAD request but probably do what you want

wget -O /dev/null http://www.example.com/cronit.php

which will save the output to /dev/null (a black hole)

You might want to look at wget's -q switch too which prevents it from creating output

I think that the best option would probably be:

wget -q --spider http://www.example.com/cronit.php

that's unless you have some special logic checking the HTTP method used to request the page

Using wget in a crontab to run a PHP script

wget's output to STDOUT is it trying to make a connection, showing progress, etc.

If you don't want it to store the saved file, use the -O file parameter:

/usr/bin/wget -q --post-data -O /dev/null 'pass=mypassword' http://www.mywebsite.com/myscript.php > /dev/null 2>&1

Checkout the wget manpage. You'll also find the -q option for completely disabling output to STDOUT (but offcourse, redirecting the output as you do works too).

How to setup a wget cron job command

Use curl like this:

/usr/bin/curl http://domain.com/page.php

Don't worry about the output, it will be ignored

Can I use wget to run a local file as a cron job using relative path above public_html?

The best command is php /home/account/invest/controllers/cron_controller.php.

Cronjob wget only posting the first variable

Just put the entire url in double quotes, or single ones, as may work here.

Cron job with CodeIgniter using wget

You can force a particular shell with

SHELL=bash
*/5 * etc...

or whatever in the crontab. Then make sure wget is available in that shell's path.

Otherwise just give an absolute /usr/bin/wget path instead.

*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/wget etc...

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