Using CRON jobs to visit url?

You can use curl as is in this thread

For the lazy:

*/5 * * * * curl --request GET 'http://exemple.com/path/check.php?param1=1'

This will be executed every 5 minutes.

* * * * * wget -O - http://yoursite.com/tasks.php >/dev/null 2>&1

That should work for you. Just have a wget script that loads the page.

Using -O - means that the output of the web request will be sent to STDOUT (standard output)

by adding >/dev/null we instruct standard output to be redirect to a black hole. by adding 2>&1 we instruct STDERR (errors) to also be sent to STDOUT, and thus all output will be sent to a blackhole. (so it will load the website, but never write a file anywhere)