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Scheduling a Cron Job in Plesk

After logging in, choose a domain in the Domains menu.

Scheduled Tasks button is in the upper right corner of the screen.

Add task via the + button.

Creating a Cron Job

  1. Choose the job type:
  2. Run a command - requires a command to run
  3. Fetch a URL - enter URL to run (recommended)
  4. Run a PHP script - you need to choose the path to the PHP file, PHP version and other parameters
  5. Choose periodicity
  6. The Cron option accepts standard Cron syntax
  7. Notifications
  8. Do not notify - output is discarded
  9. Errors only - sends error output to given email address
  10. Every time - sends all output to given email address

Confirm to schedule the job.