1and1 Cron setup 1&1

[hebs]

Took me ages to figure out this because 1and1's FAQ and phone help are **** at best!

I have published this thread to help others and hopefully save you time.

I have the 1&1 linux business hosting package so can only confirm this example works with that.


1. Log on to your 1and1 server using SSH, the program I use for this is PuTTY. You enter the username and password for SSH access to your site (found in your 1and1 control panel-administration-web space & access-Secure Shell Access) in the PuTTY command prompt and then logon your site. The next two steps you have to go through are:

a. to find the location of your current directory: enter "pwd" to find this... mine was: "/kunden/homepages/XX/dXXXXXXXX/htdocs"

b. to find the location of php on your machine to do this I entered the command "php -info" in the command prompt and looked for the location in the output which was: "/usr/local/bin/php" however due to the nature of 1and1 hosting sometimes the full path is actually "/kunden/usr/local/bin/php"

2. Next create your crontab file. You can find out more about the *'s from the crontab page on wikipedia. So I entered the command "crontab -e" (which means edit crontab) and entered the line:

"* * * * * /usr/local/bin/php /kunden/homepages/XX/dXXXXXXXX/htdocs/support/cron/index.php > /dev/null" all on one line.

This command means at every minute, every hour on every day using the program found at /usr/local/bin/php (sometimes /kunden/usr/local/bin/php) executes the file found at /kunden/homepages/XX/dXXXXXXXX/htdocs/support/cron/index.php and send the output to the location /dev/null (which means get rid of the output).

Using this command I found that on 1and1 hosting my pop/imap emails were fetched between every 1 and 2 minutes.

I hope this helps.

Hebs

www.sub-laser.com

[Jamie Edwards]

Hi hebs,

This is very useful; thank you for taking the time to post a guide.

[craigbrass]

Yes, thanks for sharing although I wouldn't encourage anyone to use 1and1 for anything as they manage to suck and doing things in a sane way!

[brotherrolf]

In my opinion, listing with 1and1 is like strolling into the La Brea Tar Pits. Easy in, almost impossible to get out.

[markymark]

thank you thank you thank you......

[John Haugeland]

Unfortunately as staff I am unable to comment on hosting providers, regardless of whatever personal history I may have with them, nor how entertaining those stories might be.

What I can say is that you should probably change your cron to read only every ten minutes or so. On many ISPs, it is against policy to run crons that fast, because of the constant load it puts on the server.

[craigbrass]

Unfortunately as staff I am unable to comment on hosting providers, regardless of whatever personal history I may have with them, nor how entertaining those stories might be.

Out of interest, why can't you comment on hosting providers? I see no reason why being a staff member stops you from doing this.

[Jamie Edwards]

Originally Posted by craigbrass

Out of interest, why can't you comment on hosting providers? I see no reason why being a staff member stops you from doing this.

We don't want to on our own forum, it can be easily seen as bad taste.

(not debatable)