in reply to Automatically run a web page

Why is this on a web page? What if it gets hits multiple times in a day?

If a task isn't providing web content, it doesn't really belong on a web page. Just write a script to perform the actions, and use some sort of scheduling software (cron on Unix, and you said "NT Task Scheduler", so I guess you're on windows) to run the script periodically.

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Re: •Re: Automatically run a web page
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 21, 2003 at 18:18 UTC
    Thanks for all the input. This is in a cold fusion page and I would have to write a script to execute this: 
    
<CFSET IndexCollection = "mysearch">
<CFSET IndexDirectory = "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\searcher">
<CFSET IndexRecurse = "YES">
<CFSET IndexExtensions = ".htm, .html, .pl, *.,.cfm">
<CFSET IndexLanguage = "english">

<CFINDEX 
    collection="#IndexCollection#"
    action="REFRESH"
    type="PATH"
    key="#IndexDirectory#\"
    extensions="#IndexExtensions#"
    recurse="#IndexRecurse#"
    language="#IndexLanguage#"

    urlPath="http://127.0.0.1/searcher/"

>

<HTML><HEAD>
    <TITLE>data</TITLE>


<FONT size="+2"><B>Indexing Finished</B></FONT>

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    I dont have any idea how I would make this into a script. Currently it runs when I put in the URL in my browser Location/address then it comes back saying "Indexing Finished" and it updates my search web page.
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      ColdFusion has a scheduler built in. On the admin page, click on 'Scheduled Tasks' under 'automated tasks'.

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