I want to run PHP scripts automatically on a schedule. I learned about CRON recently. But I don't know how to install and use it.
I'm using PHP, CSS, HTML, and running on XAMP apache server on localhost. How do I install and use Cron?
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Installing Crontab on Ubuntu
sudo apt-get update
We download the crontab file to the root
wget https://pypi.python.org/packages/47/c2/d048cbe358acd693b3ee4b330f79d836fb33b716bfaf888f764ee60aee65/crontab-0.20.tar.gz
Unzip the file crontab-0.20.tar.gz
tar xvfz crontab-0.20.tar.gz
Login to a folder crontab-0.20
cd crontab-0.20*
Installation order
python setup.py install
See also here:.. http://www.syriatalk.im/crontab.html
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