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Magento 2 - Build World-Class online stores
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Magento 2 - Build World-Class online stores

by Fernando J. Miguel, Ray Bogman, Vladimir Kerkhoff, Bret Williams, Jonathan Bownds
March 2017
Intermediate to advanced
699 pages
14h 28m
English
Packt Publishing
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The Magento cron job

Magento has important system processes that are very important to maintain the system's working at its full potential. These processes need automated executions to handle the updates made by the user and administrator. That is the why this feature is critical to Magento.

Cron job works with UNIX systems and can schedule specific tasks to be executed in a predetermined time on the server. The following activities can be scheduled to execute on the Magento 2.0 system:

  • The updating of currency rates
  • Customer notifications
  • The generation of Google sitemap
  • Price rules
  • Sending e-mails
  • Re-indexing

To configure the cron job, follow this recipe.

Find the php.ini file path.

If you use XAMPP, as was suggested for a web server solution at the beginning ...

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