如何在Windows中使用Laravel 5在localhost上使用cron作业

Question

I found this post here : Run Cron Job on PHP Script, on localhost in Windows which is working perfectly. Instead of a PHP file I want to run an URL instead, like http://localhost/test-cron-job

I tried to simply change this line here:

"C:\xampp\php\php.exe" -f "C:\Users\Matthew\Documents\Work\cronjob\my_script.php"

to this:

"C:\xampp\php\php.exe" -f "http://localhost/test-cron-job"

But it is not working at all. What can I do to make this work?

Answer 1

It doesn't work because php.exe is supposed to execute a PHP file. When you point it to a URL it doesn't know what to do.

What you need is something like curl for Windows and then you can make a HTTP request:

curl http://localhost/test-cron-job