cronjob

Running TYPO3 Cron inside the web container

This recipe provides two completely different techniques to do TYPO3 cron inside the web container.

• Enable Linux cron on ddev start and have it run the TYPO3 cron every minute or
• Just run a custom command (ddev cron) which will ddev exec the TYPO3 cron process every 60 seconds. (Run it in a separate window.)

Enable cronjob on start or on demand

1. Install the ddev cron custom command commands/web/cron in your .ddev/commands/web directory. Make sure that it's executable (chmod +x .ddev/commands/web/cron). This allows you to simulate a real cron job by just running ddev cron in a separate window and it
2. Place config.cron.yml in the .ddev directory (or add it to your .ddev/config.yaml); it will run the custom ddev cron command on project start, which will run a cronjob for typo3 scheduler:run every minute.
3. Change config.cron.yml to use your username instead of "root" in the first hook. (You can verify your in-container username with ddev exec id -un). (So for user rfay, - exec: echo '*/1 * * * * root TYPO3_CONTEXT=Development/Local /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/public/typo3/sysext/core/bin/typo3 scheduler:run' | sudo tee -a /etc/cron.d/typo3 would become - exec: echo '*/1 * * * * rfay TYPO3_CONTEXT=Development/Local /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/public/typo3/sysext/core/bin/typo3 scheduler:run' | sudo tee -a /etc/cron.d/typo3)

Run TYPO3 cron via ddev exec from a separate window

To run the TYPO3 cron process every 60 seconds, use the ddev cron custom command provided here.

1. Install commands/web/cron into your project's .ddev/commands/web directory.
2. Make it executable (chmod +x .ddev/commands/web/cron)
3. After starting the project, run ddev cron in a separate window and let it do its job.

Contributed by @thomaskieslich