Configure Laravel task scheduling with Crontab
cron, laravel, laravel-5, laravel-artisan, php
Solution
In your crontab you need to set the path to point to the artisan file in your project's root directory.
`* * * * * php /path/to/project/artisan schedule:run`
If you're having trouble finding the absolute path to your project route then open terminal, `cd` into your project's route directory and then use the `pwd` command, which will give you the absolute directory.
So for example:
$ cd MyUser/dev/project
$ pwd
Will output something like
`/Users/MyUser/dev/project`
Then your cronjob would look like
`* * * * * php /Users/MyUser/dev/project/artisan schedule:run`
Also try restarting your cron daemon. I've found that helps sometimes when things don't run for me.
Problem
I've create a laravel task and added to my crontab file app/Console/Kernel.php ``` <?php namespace App\Console; use Carbon; use Illuminate\Console\Scheduling\Schedule; use Illuminate\Foundation\Console\Kernel as ConsoleKernel; class Kernel extends ConsoleKernel { /** * The Artisan commands provided by your application. * * @var array */ protected $commands = [ \App\Console\Commands\Inspire::class, ]; /** * Define the application's command schedule. * * @param \Illuminate\Console\Scheduling\Schedule $schedule * @return void */ protected function schedule(Schedule $schedule) { $now = Carbon\Carbon::now('America/New_York'); $dt = Carbon\Carbon::parse($now); $time_start = $dt->toTimeString(); $dt = str_replace('-','_',$dt); $dt = str_replace(' ','_',$dt); $dt = str_replace('/',':',$dt); $schedule->exec('curl '.env('APP_URL').'fbwifi/acl_update')->everyMinute() ->sendOutputTo(public_path().'/tasks/log_'.$dt.'.txt'); } } ``` crontab file ``` * * * * * /usr/local/bin/php artisan schedule:run * * * * * php artisan schedule:run ``` Result For some reasons my crontab doesn't trigger. After 5 minutes, I don't see anything generated in my `public/tasks/` folder. I even tried to put the full path to my `php`. Am I missing anything? How would one go about debugging this?