Title: Question about cron
Last modified: November 6, 2018

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# Question about cron

 *  Resolved [sam69](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sam69/)
 * (@sam69)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-cron/)
 * In the advanced section, it shows you what command to enter for server side cron.
   
   This is what it tells me:
 * php /home/website/public_html/wp-content/plugins/mailpoet/mailpoet-cron.php /
   home/website/public_html/
 * Why is ‘/home/website/public_html/” repeated at the end?
 * Thanks
 * Btw, is that command even necessary if i already have the command for running
   wp-cron server side setup?

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 *  [Wysija](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wysija/)
 * (@wysija)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-cron/#post-10864380)
 * Hi Sam,
 * That part is indeed important. 🙂
 * That is there for the script to find the WordPress installation folder. The script
   then uses it to get all the necessary stuff from there (like database credentials,
   and so on).
 * From our testing, you would still need it if wp-cron is setup server side, as
   our task scheduler is custom and doesn’t use wp-cron in any way.
 * Thanks!
 *  Thread Starter [sam69](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sam69/)
 * (@sam69)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-cron/#post-10864400)
 * Great, thank you. I got it all setup.

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 * Last reply from: [sam69](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sam69/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-cron/#post-10864400)
 * Status: resolved