Setting up cron job

[Roosta21]

I have a website url that when inputted into a browser generates the update of a database.

How would I set that up in plesk to run a cron jon to automate this task?

 

[albans]

Go to "scheduled tasks" under "Server", and add a new task for the user "root". The command should be like that:

lynx --source -noredir -validate -verbose 'http://www.URL.tld/' > /tmp/mycron.log 2> /tmp/mycron_error.log

Note: you've to get lynx installed on your host.

 

[breun]

I guess you could also use curl or wget?

 

[Roosta21]

Thanks for the reply, tried both lynx and wget manually, as root, and they both get 403 forbidden..

checked the logs and they returned the following..

"client denied by server configuration:"

The file is chmod to 777

??

 

[Roosta21]

Had a .htaccess file in blocking it, silly error . Thanks for the command below it worked perfectly after i put ' ' at eith side of the url.

Thanks again

Ross

 

[albans]

Thanks for the info. I just corrected it!