Drupal Features in Cpanel - Cron Jobs

A pretty good amount of hosting providers offer cPanel with their hosting accounts. Most users deduce that there's not much you can do in terms of a cron job, but the opposite is true. It is quite easy to set up a cron job on Cpanel. No need to install the useful (but now unnecessary) poormanscron module.

To set up a cron job on your cPanel account, log in at www.example.com/cpanel. Scroll all the way down until you see the Cron Jobs icon. Go in there and select Standard. You'll get a from titled "Entry 1". On the field "Command to run" enter the following:

wget http://www.example.com/cron.php > /dev/null

Replace example.com with your domain of course! To have it run every hour, set the minutes to 0 and set the rest of the options to the first on it's list.

That's it! Save your crontab at the bottom and you're done.

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