Getting scheduled tasks to run on Plesk 8.1 for Windows can be a little tricky. The manual is not very helpful and I was not able to find much help on the rest of the Internet.
Luckily, I was able to get this working through trail and error.
Step 1: Log in to the Plesk admin area and click on the domain you want to run the scheduled task for. Click on the icon for scheduled tasks.
Step 2: Add a new task. You’ll need to make sure php-cgi is enabled for your domain as well. For the “path to executable file” you’ll put: “c:\program files\path to plesk\php-cgi.exe”.
The argument will be the full path to your php file you would like to run. It might look something like this: “c:\inetpub\vhosts\mydomain\httpdocs\cron\mytask.php”.
Pick a time for your task to run and let the WIN roll in!
