How to set up Cron for Magento 2 on Amazon AWS

It is impossible if you are using Magento 2 and you are not familiar with Cron job because it is only hands-on functionality that allows you to automate your task and schedules. Basically, Cron job is a feature offered by Linux that contains a bunch of commands or a script that runs frequently. Due to its automation facility, it helps a lot to save time and efforts of store owner instead of manually doing a task which makes it the perfect choice for repeated tasks.

Generally, this Cron job can help to scheduled various tasks like reindexing, generating emails, generating newsletters, sitemaps and more. In Shared hosting, you can easily add Cron Jobs using Cron Job Manager from Cpanel but in Cloud Servers, you don’t have CPanel access. So, you have to use CLI (Command Line Interface) to write Cron Jobs using SSH.

Here are few steps to set up your own Cron Jobs on AWS EC2 Server within minutes.
Firstly open your SSH with your credentials and type below command to open an editor.

crontab -e

Now, you will get some of the existed editors options to open, select the second one.

1. /bin/ed
2. /bin/nano
3. /usr/bin/vim.basic
4. /usr/bin/vim.tiny

After that type following command to your editor.

*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/php /home/magecomp/www/bin/magento cron:run > /home/magecomp/www/var/log/magento.cron.log&

*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/php -c /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini /home/magecomp/www/update/cron.php > /home/magecomp/www/var/log/update.cron.log&

*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/php /home/magecomp/www/bin/magento setup:cron:run > /home/magecomp/www/var/log/setup.cron.log&

Note: You need to replace your php path with “/usr/bin/php” to above command.
To find your php installation path run command “which php”.
You need to put your Magento 2 root path instead of “/home/magecomp/www”
You can find it by using “pwd”.

crontab -l