How do I get cron to call update my site (PHP)?

Question

Hi,

I want to update my site every 5/10 minutes using cron. I'm connecting to my server (Ubuntu) using PuTTY. I edited the crontab file but it doesn't seem to work... What should I do?

Answer 1

Sounds like the poster is looking for something like this.

Add a line in your crontab:

01,11,21,31,41,51 * * * * root /path/to/php/application /path/to/website/update_script.php

That would have every 10 minutes update_script.php would be run