Setting up cron on Hostmonster/Bluehost through the cPanel interface

Last updated April 14, 2011. Created by jchampag@drupal.org on January 10, 2008.
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Logging into the cPanel interface for your hostmonster account, scroll to the bottom and look in the "Advanced" section
Select "Cron Jobs." It is represented with a calendar icon
Select "Standard" (This step is unnecessary in Bluehost)
- Do not use an email address or you will be hit with a notification every time the cron job runs
Enter the following command: php /home/+++Your hostmonster login username+++/public_html/cron.php
- Your home directory may include a number, such as /home2/

Select the number of times that you would like the cron job to run

See if it works -you can check whether or not a Cron Job has been run in the Logs menu in Drupal

Comments

Posted by grandmaster on February 8, 2010 at 1:28am

i struggled with this for 2 years, and finally found the correct format for the command line.

You can simply use:

php -cd /home/USERNAME/public_html/SITE_DIRECTORY/cron.php

If you want it to use your public_html/php.ini file, you can use the following:

php -c /home/USERNAME/public_html/php.ini /home/USERNAME/public_html/SITE_DIRECTORY/cron.php

~ grandmaster

Posted by crosshairs on April 20, 2011 at 11:32am

on Bluehost through cpanel: