Site5 and Cron: Drupal 6 & 7

Cron jobs on site5 are placed in the Programming Centre. You can also type 'cron' in the search box and the link to the relevant page will appear.

It's a straightforward and easy to setup, providing you know the commands that you need to enter

In Drupal 6, the command

wget www.mysite.com/cron.php

should work.

For Drupal 7, go to /admin/reports/status and near the top you will see a link for external Cron run, that looks something like this:

To run cron from outside the site, go to http://mysite.com/cron.php?cron_key=CPL-qXPLliv9XqwHswOFmUU_8L4fOVkdA

Now, the final command for setting a cron job on Drupal 7 on Site5 (using the above example:

wget http://mysite.com/cron.php?cron_key=CPL-qXPLliv9XqwHswOFmUU_8L4fOVkdA

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