How do I set up a cronjob to ping the /cron page automatically?

In Linux, you can use various command-line tools to ping a webpage from your crontab.

• lynx --source "http://localhost/cerb4/cron"
• wget -O - --quiet "http://localhost/cerb4/cron"

In Windows:

• You can download a binary version of wget here.
• Set up a scheduled task to run:c:\wget\wget.exe --spider "http://localhost/cerb4/cron"

NOTE: if you are not using the mod_rewrite plugin for friendly URLs, then the above examples all change "cerb4/cron" to "cerb4/index.php/cron".


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