Archive: March 2018

I have done this before; however, some times you need a re-fresher. I started with Localhost version. My Local Environment is Windows 7 running WAMP.

I used “Task Scheduler” to be my local Cron service.  I start by right-clicking on the Task Scheduler and “run as administrator“.

1. Create a task
   
   
2. On the General tab give the job a name so you can identify the task. I checked to “Run whether user is logged on or not“. Do not check “hidden“.
   
3. On the Triggers tab click “new“, and set the time you want this to run. I checked to “Stop task” if it is taking longer than an  hour.
   
   
4. In the Actions tab click “new”, and for the Action select “start a program“.  Browse to your WAMP and locate the PHP.exe. For the arguments add the full path to your sites “cli” folder. Mine is “C:\wamp\www\mywebsite\cli\akeeba-backup.php”
   
5. The next tabs Conditions and Settings are self explanatory.

Live Site

• Shared hosting with Godaddy
• Joomla 3.8.6 site
• Akeeba 5.5 pro

I needed to get my path to my PHP.exe with the Godaddy shared hosting and the configuration wizard totally figured this out.

/home/mycpanelusername/public_html/cli/akeeba-backup.php

For the PHP path I used

/home/mycpanelusername/php

The path I used for the PHP was no good. I found the next article on Godaddy’s site.

https://www.godaddy.com/help/create-cron-jobs-16086

/usr/local/bin/php -q /home/[user name]/[path to the file]

https://uk.godaddy.com/help/what-is-a-cron-job-3483

I used the following video from Akeeba to get it right.

https://www.akeebabackup.com/videos/1213-akeeba-backup-for-joomla-pro/1623-abtp02-automating-backup.html

My Final path was:

 /usr/local/bin/php /home/myaccount/public_html/cli/akeeba-backup.php

When I ran the configuration I was given the correct path to the Akeeba-backup.php file.

In the CPanel hosting I went to “cron job”, and created a job.

I hope this helps someone else out there.