Cron Configuration

Setting Up Cron Jobs

We recommend you run the cron once per day to avoid your customers receiving duplicate emails for overdue notices etc. The following information will aid you in setting up your Admin cron (invoice generation etc) on different Control Panels and environments.

The examples below will setup the cron to run at 9am every day.

cPanel

Click on the Cron Job link in cPanel and then click the Advanced (Unix Style) button.

cPanel Cron

Option		Minute	Hour	Day	Month	Weekday		Command
a)		0	9	*	*	*		php -q /path/to/home/public_html/whmcspath/adminpath/cron.php
b)		0	9	*	*	*		wget -O http://www.yourdomain.com/whmcspath/adminpath/cron.php >/dev/null
c)		0	9	*	*	*		get http://www.yourdomain.com/whmcspath/adminpath/cron.php

Windows Server

Depending on your server setup, you can run the cron directly from the php executable. If this is not possible, you would need to use the server browser to run the cron

An example command to run is:

Command
C:\php\php.exe -q "C:\inetpub\wwwroot\whmcs7\admin\cron.php"
"c:\program files\internet explorer\iexplore.php" "http://www.yourdomain.com/whmcspath/cron.php"