Cron Job Set up in Windows

Question

How can I set up Magento 2 cron jobs to work on a Windows server?

I can make the cron tasks run in a similar way to this or by calling the file directly (as far as I can tell this works).

yoursite.com/update/cron.php

However when trying to do extension installs Magento thinks that the cron process is not running (Magento docs on this issue). How can I make it know it is running?

Answer 1

This can be solved by running the correct command line task from the base magento install directory.

setup:cron:run

Make sure that your installs all use the same version of PHP and that the XSL extension is enabled otherwise this will cause issues as well.

Answer 2

If you want to run cron job directly without having to wait for the schedule, you can use

n98-magerun2 sys:cron:run <job name>

Answer 3

I used "Task Scheduler" within Windows to achieve this. I create a task that ran every 5 minutes and for the action I set the following:

Program/script: C:\xampp\php\php.exe

Add arguments (optional): C:\xampp\htdocs\magento2\bin\magento cron:run

The annoying thing about this is that you'll see php.exe pop up every time the cron runs. There's a work around for that, by changing the script to run as system. There's a guide on how to do that here.

Answer 4

You can simply run the following command line:

php magento-installation-directory/bin/magento cron:run

You can also create cron job to run at a certain time interval if u dont want to run this command manually everytime