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Configuring cron

Last updated February 8, 2010. Created by mattman on December 17, 2008.
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A comprehensive Video about Setting Up & Troubleshooting Drupal's Cron will help you understand what your options are and how things are working behind the scenes.

If you just want the documentation, visit http://drupal.org/cron.

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Umm, you're making me watch a

Posted by Aren Cambre on November 13, 2009 at 10:42pm

Umm, you're making me watch a 31 minute video just to configure cron?

Completely agree! it's just

Posted by NRojo on November 16, 2009 at 6:52pm

Completely agree!

it's just the cron.. c'on!

For cPanel, try this

Posted by pjreagan on April 30, 2010 at 3:38am

I found this site helpful for understanding how to set up cron using cPanel...

http://www.helidon.net/blog/php/how-to-set-drupal-cron-jobs-hostgator-us...

THANKS

Posted by kentlewan1 on December 24, 2011 at 6:24am

I am a hostgator user. I found this link most helpful. It appears to have solved my problem in 3 minutes! This is a relief after searching for an hour online for "caching problems causing calendar to get stuck."

I think CRON is the key to my "date stuck" problem and needing to manually flush the cache. Proof will be in the pudding ... or in the cache!

I don't see why you complain..

Posted by steff2009 on July 29, 2010 at 1:02pm

Who made you watch this video? If you don't need it, don't do it.

It's well done and very helpful for new Drupal users.

At the time, there was no

Posted by Aren Cambre on July 29, 2010 at 2:12pm

At the time, there was no alternate documentation.

Drupal Cron Jobs

Posted by jamesdixon on November 12, 2010 at 7:41pm

Here's a five minute video on setting up crontab: http://www.freelancedrupaldeveloper.ca/drupal-cron-jobs

My Drupal Developer Blog - Drupal video tutorials.

Thanks

Posted by Busman on January 18, 2010 at 3:34pm

Thanks for the vid.

For being as long as it is

Posted by Lite on January 20, 2010 at 10:20pm

I was expecting a little more in-depth look at crontab and the cron scripts, but I think this video is aimed at a beginner audience which I can understand.

Please post something I can print

Posted by verta on February 8, 2010 at 3:29pm

I have to document this site so we can put together our disaster recovery plan. I can't print or easily archive a video. When we're recovering our site, we don't have time to watch videos, we need to have a cookbook that someone stepping in can handle.

Please post docs!

http://drupal.org/cron

Posted by Aren Cambre on February 8, 2010 at 5:06pm

http://drupal.org/cron

poormans cron

Posted by vitis on May 19, 2010 at 5:46pm

Just confirming - If I configure cron.php to run regularly, can I and should I disable poormans cron? Conversely, does having poormans cron run regularly mean that I do not need to have cron run on a schedule (as opposed to task-associated).

Yes and yes.

Posted by Aren Cambre on May 21, 2010 at 2:54am

Yes and yes.

Is this the right link?

Posted by poetsespresso on June 20, 2010 at 4:40am

I'm on DSL and the video link doesn't open besides a message "The server at gotdrupal.com is taking too long to respond."

Protect cron.php

Posted by steff2009 on July 29, 2010 at 1:29pm

HI, I did as you recommend in your video about protecting cron.php in .htaccess but still cron can be visited and run in anonymous mode.

What should I do? Thanks for your great help!

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