PowerShell Tricks: How to refresh a web URL at certain interval?

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PowerShell Tricks:

Query: Hey, We have a PHP site (Joomla 2.5.11) hosted on IIS 7.5. We do have another application hosted on cloud which holds the documents. The CRON job in Joomla requires a refresh for every 30 minutes to make the search result to work. We need the log file to capture the exception if the script fails.

Solution: Yes, its possible. Requirement in short is to refresh the web URL of cron job for every 30 minutes.

PowerShell Code: Simple Way of Doing!!!



try{
$request = [System.Net.WebRequest]::Create("CRON JOB URL")
$request.UseDefaultCredentials = $true
$response = $request.GetResponse()
$response.Close()
}Catch{$_.Exception | Out-File D:\Logs\Box\joomlaapilogs.txt}

Enjoy PowerShell :)