Setting up Laravel Scheduler on Digital Ocean

Hey Graham,

Yes indeed, there isn't a direct way to do that but there are a couple of work around ways of doing this:

You can use an HTTP endpoint and this cron service here:

• First setup a route to expose the schedule command in your Laravel app, eg:

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Artisan;

Route::get('/cron', function() {
    Artisan::call('schedule:run');
    return 'Scheduled tasks executed!';
});

• Then setup a corn service as described here to trigger that route using a curl command:

How To Setup a Job Scheduler on DigitalOcean App Platform

You would just need to update the curl command from the above documentation to correspond to the schedule route that you've added.

Let me know if this works for you!

Best,

Bobby