Feb 4
CRON JOBS in cPanel
As we know, cPanel is the management tool of the website that allows user to manage various tasks related to website. One of such feature is Cron Jobs. It is a type of Job-Scheduler in Linux based Operating System that allows user to set up any repetitive task that needs to be run periodically. With this feature you can automate any specific task as per your requirement.
This would be more clear with the given example. Suppose, you have a website for blogging. Everyday you create several posts and delete them. Do many changes to modify the website presentation and many more. You may also know that these all activities consumes space even the trash files. It cannot be possible for anyone to manage these trash files manually. So, here we can use this feature of cPanel and set a job that would help us to manage the disk space by deleting the trash files periodically. Before proceeding further let me tell you that here I’ve used the cPanel interface of REDSERVERHOST to explain the procedure.
Let’s see how to set Cron Jobs in cPanel and check how it works?
As I’ve already mentioned that Cron Job is a job-scheduler that allows user to set up a repetitive task that can be executed periodically.
So, here I will explain the procedure to set up Cron Job for domain in cPanel and its result.
- Login to cPanel account .
2. Search for Cron Jobs from the list and you will find it in Advanced section.
3. Enter the required details on the next page as directed.
Cron Email: In this section, enter the email address, in which you want to receive updates related to cron job. It is optional.
Add New Cron Job: In this section you have to select the Settings, i.e time schedule according to which cron job would be executed.
Command: In this section you have to enter the path as given in PHP command examples.
4. Click over Add New Cron Job and you can view this in Current Cron Jobs section.
You can also Edit or Delete any scheduled cron job from here.
Cron Jobs simplifies your manual work as it allows you to schedule the task as per your requirement. Now, you can use Cron Jobs to delete temporary files and many more.
Hope this may help you to understand about the Cron Job which is an interesting feature in cPanel.
Happy Reading !
