{"id":179,"date":"2018-09-12T12:05:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T12:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/12\/set-cron-in-magento-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T09:39:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T04:09:35","slug":"set-cron-in-magento-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/set-cron-in-magento-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Set Cron in Magento 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Magento 2 facilitates the feature of cron job that allows to schedule activities ahead of time and thus automates them, saving our time! Some of the examples where an admin needs to <i><strong>set Cron<\/strong><\/i>&nbsp;<i><strong>in Magento 2<\/strong><\/i> are reindexing, generating Google sitemaps, customer notifications, updating currency rates, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Get rid of doing important periodic tasks manually. Automate such tasks in your stores by configuring cron job in Magento 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">There are two methods to set cron in Magento 2:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>From SSH<\/strong> &#8211; Open SSH as root user and type <strong>crontab -e<\/strong> and add the below commands.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>From cPanel<\/strong> &#8211; Cron can be set directly from cPanel by adding the below commands.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Add the Following Commands to Set Cron in Magento 2<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>* * * * * \/usr\/bin\/php \/var\/www\/magento2\/bin\/magento cron:run | grep -v \"Ran jobs by schedule\" &gt;&gt; \/var\/www\/magento2\/var\/log\/magento.cron.log\n* * * * * \/usr\/bin\/php \/var\/www\/magento2\/update\/cron.php &gt;&gt; \/var\/www\/magento2\/var\/log\/update.cron.log\n* * * * * \/usr\/bin\/php \/var\/www\/magento2\/bin\/magento setup:cron:run &gt;&gt; \/var\/www\/magento2\/var\/log\/setup.cron.log<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s it! Now you may relax while your job gets done automatically. You can also <a title=\"How to Dynamically Schedule Cron Job in Magento 2 System Configuration\" href=\"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/dynamically-schedule-cron-job-in-magento-2-system-configuration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dynamically schedule cron job in Magento 2 system configuration<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank You!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magento 2 facilitates the feature of cron job that allows to schedule activities ahead of time and thus automates them, saving our time! Some of the examples where an admin needs to set Cron&nbsp;in Magento 2 are reindexing, generating Google sitemaps, customer notifications, updating currency rates, etc. Get rid of doing important periodic tasks manually. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magento"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19092,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/19092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}