Even Drupal has to take out the trash and wash it’s windows every once in a while. Ok, that sounds a bit silly, but what I’m talking about are those routine items which need to be carried out on some type of frequency - to keep your Drupal running smoothly.
It’s Drupal’s cron.php script which needs the love. It sits at the same level as the index.php script and it takes care of some of the “behind the scenes” stuff. It’s an important aspect to your site and knowing how to configure and set this up is what this video is all about.
From covering a normal Cron setup (according to drupal.org) and using Poormanscron, as well as discussing Multisite cron, of which my current favorite is a simple shell script, this video covers as much as it can to help you gain a full understanding.
There are all kinds of other tips and tricks related to setting up cron, but essentially, you simply need to know that cron.php must be accessed on some type of frequency.
Thank you for your excellent tutorials.
I especially enjoy your indepth videos on multisite setups. I’m learning so much!
Hello. I heave learn from this tutorial all I needed to know: some informations were more of what I needed, so I simply passed over… ;-)
I noticed that the video was not played in Opera nor in Firefox browsers, I had to switch to IE.
Anyway: a similar process to cron in Windows OS is called “Scheduled tasks”.
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Thanks for the tutorial, just to let you know that Cron jobs for Windows is Scheduled Tasks :-)
Thanks for the tutorial, seriously, but isn’t it toooooooo long? Thank you anyways!
It’s always hard to tell if I should provide comprehensive coverage for those who don’t know as many of the details or shorter videos and offer them as a series.
I’ll look into doing more segmented videos and providing them in a series format when it seems to fit.
Thanks for the feedback!
5 * * * * means it will run at 5 mins after every hour, everyday…. not that it will run every 5 min.
To run every five min you have to specify:
0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * *
Or, to run every 5 minutes, you could specify:
*/5 * * * *
Do not know why, maybe it depends on my browser or on my Flash 10 player fighting with Linux… but the video hangs when you start explaining cron, exactly when you say cron dot p h p and starts over.
ciao.
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