running crontab on php file in linux ?

[feroz akbar]

hi friends,i want to set cronjob to run a php file in localhost.

 this is what i have tried 
crontab -e
//edited the crontab file like below

 * * * * * /usr/bin/wget -q localhost/index.php //every one minute

 after saving this i tried to open localhost/index in browser but nothing happened after 1 minute,am i wrong?
 please help me

[Mritunjay Kumar]

Hi feroz,

* * * * * /usr/bin/php -q /path/to/script.php

Ensure that "path to script" to be absolute url.

Regards,

Mritunjay Kumar

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[Mritunjay Kumar]

Hi feroz,

* * * * * /usr/bin/php -q /path/to/script.php

Ensure that "path to script" to be absolute url.

Like: c:/xampp/htdocs/script.php

Regards,

Mritunjay Kumar

[vikas dwivedi]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 11:36 AM, feroz akbar <feroz...@gmail.com> wrote:

/usr/bin/wget

Hello Firoz,

Can you describe why you used 

/usr/bin/wget

while you are trying to execute php script ?

Please go with Mritunjay solution. 

regards !

vikas dwivedi