Interspire Product Knowledge Base

There are a few options for setting up cron jobs.

cPanel/Plesk :
1. When you log into your cpanel/plesk you will see an option for cron jobs or such.

2. Go into this and choose advanced.

3. Set up the cron script to be the same as in step 8 above. The path to cron will be the same as above. You will have to ask your web hosting provider what the the path to php but it is usually '/usr/bin/php' or '/usr/local/bin/php'


Windows :
1. If using a Windows web, you instead must use Scheduled Tasks, since Windows does not support cron natively.

2. If you are not running your web server locally, you may have to consult


SSH :
1. Login to your web server via telnet or SSH.

2. Change into your web sites Interspire Email Marketer directory. You can do this with the 'cd' command, for example: cd /home/httpd/vhosts/yoursite.com/httpdocs/iem. Note that this path will be different on your web server. If you are unsure of the path, ask your administrator.

3. Log in to the Interspire Email Marketer control panel, go to the settings page.
 
4. Copy the "Cron Path" from Interspire Email Marketer. You can find this on the settings page.
 
5. Make sure you tick the "Yes, Cron support is enabled" option on the settings page and save your changes.

6. We now need to find the path to our PHP executable. To do this type 'which php'. You should see a response such as '/usr/bin/php'. If you don't get a response or get an error message, ask your administrator.

7. Type 'crontab -e' to edit your Crontab file. This will load your Crontab into a text editor. The default text editor for Linux is Vi, so the following instructions will relate to Vi.

8. Press 'i' to change into insert mode and add the following lines to the end of your crontab:

*/10 * * * * (path/to/php) -q (path/to/cron)

Substitute the path/to/php to the response you received in step 6 and the path/to/cron to the result you received in step 4.

9. Save your crontab by pressing the following key sequence: escape, colon, w, q, enter