cakephp - cron tab not working php

Question

I added a cronjob by entering this command - crontab -e. I added the following tasks in that file-

*/5 * * * * /var/www/web/vendors/shells/aggregated_deals.php
*/5 * * * * /var/www/web/vendors/shells/deals.php

These are php scripts. after that i restarted the apache server,but these scripts are not executing. And syslog log file is empty. please help me to run this cron.

Answer 1

I don't think that will run by itself - you need to run the scripts using the PHP interpreter, like this:

/usr/bin/php /var/www/web/vendors/shells/aggregated_deals.php

Note that your installation may have php elsewhere - use the command which php on the command line to find out the location.