我如何每2小时在Amazon EC2云上运行php脚本？

Question

I am trying to run a php script every hour on amazon ec2 cloud but not able to run it. I am using it

MAILTO="email@something.com"
* */2 * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/sports/webservices/cron-job.php

I have also mentioned my email in MAILTO . But not receiving any email and it is not updating the database.

When i changed (removed /usr/bin/php ) it with this

MAILTO="email@something.com"
* */2 * * * /var/www/html/sports/webservices/cron-job.php

then I received an email with this error message.

/var/www/html/sports/webservices/cron-job.php: line 1: ?php: No such file or directory
/var/www/html/sports/webservices/cron-job.php: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `0'
/var/www/html/sports/webservices/cron-job.php: line 2: `error_reporting(0);'

Answer 1

Your problem is that a cronjob is normally executes as sh script. So you need to let the php script been executed by the php interpreter. Try to use:

* */2 * * * /bin/php5 /var/www/html/sports/webservices/cron-job.php

Please note that the php binary can also be php in the directory /usr/bin/ .