How to create Cron Jobs in Zpanel
August 23, 2014 / by Marco / Categories : Technology, WordpressI’ve been using Zpanel for the past year and it’s a free Open Source Tool similar to Cpanel. Instead of paying $10 a month for using Cpanel, Zpanel is the free alternative. There are limited features with using Zpanel, for example it doesn’t have the option (One Click Install) to install WordPress, Joomla or the other open source packages. You need to do this manually. I found creaing Cron Jobs in Zpanel a little bit more difficult compared to Cpanel. But here’s what I had to do.
STEPS: CRON JOB IN ZPANEL
1. Create the php script. Here’s an example to trigger a php file hosted on your website:
<?php
$sUrl = "http://www.businesslegions.com/script.php";
$rCh = curl_init($sUrl);
curl_setopt($rCh, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:11.0) Gecko Firefox/11.0");
curl_setopt($rCh, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($rCh, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 1);
curl_setopt($rCh, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 0);
curl_setopt($rCh, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($rCh, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
curl_exec($rCh);
curl_close($rCh);
?>
chmod -R 777 /var/spool/cron
crontab -u apache -l
ANOTHER ALTERNATIVE
I found that the php script that I use to trigger a website doesn’t really work when you execute a zpanel script. What I ended up doing is modifying the crontab script by using: crontab -u apache -e I deleted the commands that was generated by Zpanel and replaced it with my own
0,30 * * * * wget -q -O /dev/null “http://www.businesslegions.com/trigger”
If you are not sure about the timer settings then have a look at this reference guide: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron
That’s it. If there’s anything that I missed please let me know.
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