By Thomas Arllan on Thursday, 21 August 2014
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Hi

I am running EasyDiscuss in an intranet on a windows computer via WAMP.

The emails are not being sent when someone make a new discussion becouse I can not run cron on the windows machine. I am trying to do the same thing with windows task manager which is a similar thing. But can not seem to get it to work.

Here is how I am doing it and below is the result.

In task manager I am scheduling a task to run every 5 minutes. The comand is like this:
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" "http:\itsupport\intranet\components\com_easydiscuss\cron.php"


What happens is that it opens my FireFox browser like it should and goes to the proper script. The script indicates that it runs... showing this message:
Cronjob processed.


But the emails are not sent and continue to sit in the que in the easydiscuss admin interface.

The intranet website is able to send out emails for other components.

Do you know what I need to do?

Thanks
Thomas
I was able to work it out... In case anyone else sees this post I will put the resolution below.

How to make a cron type job on a windows machine for the EasyDiscuss notification emails.

Create a scheduled task and within it, add the following line to the run field. And change this part myintranet.com to your own address.

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" "http://myintranet.com/index.php?option=com_easydiscuss&task=cron"


Then adjust the scheduled tasks schedule to what you need. I had a little confusion also about some settings. But bassically I have it run every day, then under advanced I have it set to run every 5 minutes, The duration is set to 24 hours. Then under settings I have it to turn it off after a minute.

With all these settings, the task runs every 5 minutes all day, and tunrs off when after a minute.
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Thursday, 21 August 2014 06:11
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Hello Thomas Sechak,

I'm really delayed of this reply,
Glad to heard your issues resolved.
I will appreciated that you're so kindly to share this solution for whos configure the cronjob in Windows machine, that was very helpful for the Windows users.
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Thursday, 21 August 2014 11:49
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