Configuring cron jobs on Media Temple Grid Servers (gs)
Last modified: March 22, 2008 - 15:26
Through my experience and to my knowledge, cron jobs on Media Temple's Grid Servers must be run via an .sh file in the "/scripts" directory of your Drupal installation. This was confusing to me as I've always setup cron jobs in cPanel. Media Temple does not use cPanel. Following the steps to setup a cron job like 45 * * * * /usr/bin/wget -O - -q http://www.example.com/cron.php through a typical cPanel interface will not work in Media Temple's cron job creation tool.
Use the following steps to get cron jobs working on a Media Temple Grid Server:
- Log into your (mt) AccountCenter and go to your WebControl panel.
- Click on the "Cron Jobs" icon to enter the cron configuration page.
- Select the "Add a new cron job" button.
- Enter an email address for the "Output email". Note:Leave this blank if you don't want constant emails.
- Enter the following in the "command to run" text box:
curl http://www.example.com/cron.php
where "example.com" is your domain name. - Under "Scheduling Settings" select how often you want your cron job to run.
- Note the Media Temple will not allow a cron job to run more often than "every 5 minutes".
- To setup a cron job to run once an hour:
- Under the "minutes" entry, specify the minute value on which the cron job will start each hour.
- Then select the following radio boxes: hour, day, month, day of the week.
- To setup a cron job to run once an hour:

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MediaTemple's Cron jobs threw me for a loop too. Thanks for posting this solution!