The scheduler extension supplied with TYPO3 enables the regular execution of tasks in TYPO3, for example:
- Updating statistics
- Newsletter dispatch
- Reindexing for the search function
- Cleaning up the database
Previously, you could set up a separate cronjob for each of these tasks. In the scheduler, the tasks can be entered in a schedule and only one cronjob is required to call up the scheduler.
Set up cronjob
In the directory typo3cms/projekt1/typo3conf in our hosting packages, the file scheduler.sh is currently located with the following content:
#! /bin/bash env -i /usr/local/bin/php7-72LATEST-CLI -f $PWD/typo3cms/projekt1/typo3/sysext/core/bin/typo3 scheduler:run
Depending on the PHP version used for the domain, the same PHP basic version should also be set here. Change the line for PHP version 7.3 as follows
env -i /usr/bin/php73 -f $PWD/typo3cms/ ...etc
The following PHP CLI versions are available:
/usr/bin/php56
/usr/bin/php70
/usr/bin/php71
/usr/bin/php72
/usr/bin/php73
/usr/bin/php74
/usr/bin/php80
/usr/bin/php81
/usr/bin/php82
/usr/bin/php83
If the TYPO3 project is located in a different directory, the path name within the file must be adjusted.
Now the script must be made executable:
chmod +x scheduler.sh
A cronjob is now set up in the customer menu to call this script every 30 minutes.
