Quick Cron Job Question

I think this is an easy question, but the Big G has given me no results.

If I want to create a cron job that refreshes my home page, say once an hour, how do I do that?

I thought it would be as easy as creating a cron and identifying my index.php -- but that doesn't seem to do the trick because of page permissions(?). Because it's wordpress, i can't chance perms without irking WP. ugh.

I know how to make a cron that does it's thing once per hour, I just don't know how to make a script that updates my index for the cron to go to. Does that make sense?

Any help would be uber appreciated!

Thanks!

Marceia

 

What do you mean by "refreshes" ? Is there a certain command you need run every hour ?

 

I have a plugin that will add a post to the page, but the page must be refreshed first. I've had no luck with wp-o-matic (too buggy in WPMU) so I'm using kind of a workaround. It works great, but if I don't have any visitors, then I don't have any posts added.

So what I wanted was a cron job that would simulate a visitor coming to my homepage - it sounded easy - is it not?

 

Use wget for the command, it will hit the page and hopefully that will work. Like this :

wget http://somedomain.com

 

ok, so for instance:

0 * * * * wget http://somedomain.com

like that? cool. thanks!

 

I think so.

 

Edit Contab file

crontab -e

Code (markup):

Add a new line

0 * * * * php /root/fileadmin

Code (markup):

Chmod fileadmin to 777, chgrp/chown to current user.

In the fileadmin file, add the PHP code to update the page.

Peace,