When you develop CMS sites it is best practice to have local development copies as opposed to working directly on the live production server. If you have multiple such sites on a WAMP install you will need to mange cron to keep these up to date. In this post we look at a number of options available to you.
If you have your own local WAMP server installations of Drupal you can run cron by:
1) Download wget and create a scheduled task to run the following bat file:
@echo off
rem
rem wgetCronPhp.bat
rem
rem Fetches cron.php from the localhost root and writes it to the nul device.
rem
"c:\program files\GnuWin32\bin\wget.exe" -q -O nul http://example.site.local/cron.php
You could either create a scheduled task for each site or add new lines to the batch file. Set the scheduled task to run every hour or so
2) Install and run BBCron - set to run as a scheduled task on startup
Add all of the sites to the .ini file
