I am developing a site locally using xampp. I would like to configure cron, so the dev environment is the same as the production environment. However, my system is windows vista. Is there any way to do this, or am I forced to accept that my dev and production environments will be forks?
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I would highly recommend looking into Cygwin. I was using that when I wanted linux/unix utilities on Windows. It supports Cron as well.
Jacob
TheJacobTaylor
2009-08-18 04:51:23
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You could create a windows scheduled task to run cron.php (or call it in the browser).
Jeremy French
2009-08-18 10:06:57
on my production server, I wouldn't actually configure the cron itself through drupal, right? I can choose what goes on in cron.php, but the cron job itself has to be done through the server's interface. (cpanel, in my case.) So I could use cron online and windows scheduled task for dev, and they would act essentially the same?
Rosarch
2009-08-18 16:09:23
yes they would.
Jeremy French
2009-08-19 06:10:52
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You may want to check a Windows Task Scheduler tutorial at http://www.iopus.com/guides/winscheduler.htm.
boxoft
2009-08-29 00:03:34
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Btw this is a really good question...there are a lot of good scheduled task apps out there. The 1 I liked is Visual Cron at http://www.visualcron.com/
Running a scheduled task, is a very tough thing for web server/web apps to do...Because they have to check every x seconds or minutes to see if a task needs to be done, which can suck up cpu cycles for your web server/apps.
Which is why i prefer using an os based task scheduler or os task scheduling software, better performance I believe.
One trick that I had learned, was using php's -f command to create scheduled tasks without having to open a browser window, then it can run tasks...
On window's systems the only other way was opening up ie/firefox/opera whatever to run your web-based task..
good luck!
crosenblum
2009-10-18 04:08:16