Crontab unable to execute PHP script. bad interpreter: No such file or directory

Question

Trying to use Crontab to execute commands at regular intervals. But crontab keeps giving the error:

/bin/sh: /var/www/html/Scripts/lib/Tasks.php: /usr/bin/php^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

Tasks.php:

#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
//scripts
?>

I feel like my Shebang is messed up. The main php file appears to be present in /usr/bin/php but I keep getting the error. I have been trying other shebangs from other posts but most of them are not using the combination of Centos6 php5 and apache. I just need to execute this php script every few min.

Answer 1

In php file shebang operator will not work as per my understanding.

You can rewrite crontab as below:

* * * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/Scripts/lib/Tasks.php

You can change crontab frequency as per you need. Also please verify if php is at right place with below command:

which php

Thanks.