I have an php file to create a new text file . That has to run in every minute . I stored that file on /var/www/html/cron.php . Also i had done in command prompt
crontab -e
edit the file like
* * * * * /var/www/html/cron.php
But still cron not working on localhost
The command you put in crontab should be something like:
*/10 * * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/cron.php
Where /usr/bin/php is an example path to your php binary.
You can find out your php binary with:
whereis php
you need to specify in the cron the command to execute, i.e
[cron time] [command to execute]
/var/www/html/cron.php is not a command just a file, you need to use something like
* * * * * php /var/www/html/cron.php
*better to use full path of php bin instead of php
This should work:
*/1 * * * * cd /var/www/html;./cron.php