How to run laravel 5.2 artisan command on cron job on hostgator hosting server cpanel?

Question

I have created an example schedule job to run after a specific time in Laravel 5.2. And this is working fine on localhost through artisan command.

I am running this command on local server: php artisan Demo:Cron

Now I am adding this task in cPanel's advance option cron job on HostGator hosting server. But it is not working.

This is the command I am trying:

cd /home/pofindia/public_html/beta-var1/ && /usr/local/bin/php artisan Demo:Cron

Php version: 5.4 default. And here is my example file

<?php

namespace App\Console\Commands;

use Illuminate\Console\Command;
use DB;

class DemoCron extends Command
{
    /**
     * The name and signature of the console command.
     *
     * @var string
     */
    protected $signature = 'demo:cron';

    /**
     * The console command description.
     *
     * @var string
     */
    protected $description = 'Command description';

    /**
     * Create a new command instance.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function __construct()
    {
        parent::__construct();
    }

    /**
     * Execute the console command.
     *
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function handle()
    {
        DB::table('items')->insert(['name'=>'hello new']);
        $this->info('Demo:Cron Cummand Run successfully!');
    }
}

Answer 1

run

which php

to see where the php executable is, copy that path.

crontab -e

(I'm assuming this is your project root where your artisan is located /home/pofindia/public_html/beta-var1/ but this requires you to add artisan to it, as so /home/pofindia/public_html/beta-var1/artisan)

add the crontab entry

* * * * * /usr/local/bin/php  /home/pofindia/public_html/beta-var1/artisan Demo:Cron

really all you are doing here is providing the absolute paths