Problem with cron setting in Laravel 12 that is not working

Question

I have a Laravel 12.39 project (on PHP 8.3) on a shared hosting with cPanel access, and in the cron section, I have the following setting to run artisan schedule:run, but it isn't working. This was an upgrade from the Laravel 10 project, where the server crons were the same and worked.

*   *  *  *  * /usr/local/bin/php /home/my-project/public_html/artisan schedule:run > /dev/null 2>&1

In my app/Console/Kernel.php class, I have the following method and command:

<?php

namespace App\Console;

use Illuminate\Console\Scheduling\Schedule;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Console\Kernel as ConsoleKernel;

class Kernel extends ConsoleKernel
{
    /**
     * Define the application's command schedule.
     */
    protected function schedule(Schedule $schedule): void
    {
        // Continuous
        // Queue
        $schedule->command('queue:work --tries=3')->runInBackground()->withoutOverlapping()->evenInMaintenanceMode()->everyMinute();
    
        if(app()->isProduction()) {
           // Every five minutes
           // Clear views
           $schedule->command('view:clear', ['--quiet'])->withoutOverlapping()->everyFiveMinutes();
        }
    }

    /**
     * Register the commands for the application.
     */
    protected function commands(): void
    {
        $this->load(__DIR__ . '/Commands');
    
        require base_path('routes/console.php');
    }
}

Is the above cron set correctly at the cPanel, or is it an issue in my Laravel 12 code that I must be calling? As mentioned above, I´ve upgraded from Laravel 10 (where it was running) to Laravel 12.39, but it isn´t running.

Thanks in advance for any help on this issue.

Thanks for the contribution. Unfortunately, it is not working either. — McRui
– McRui, Commented Nov 22 at 16:17
Why not try it out and see what happens? You can also run that command manually on the shell to check this. Not piping the cron output into /dev/null might also yield some errors. — Nico Haase
– Nico Haase, Commented 2 days ago

McRui · Accepted Answer · 2025-11-22 18:51:06Z

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In laravel 12, Kernel.php is not used anymore
You need to move your code to

routes/console.php

and the code will look like this in the console.php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schedule;

    Schedule::command('queue:work --tries=3')
    ->name('queue:work')
    ->withoutOverlapping()
    ->evenInMaintenanceMode()
    ->runInBackground()
    ->everyMinute();

if (app()->isProduction()) {
    Schedule::command('view:clear', ['--quiet'])
        ->name('view:clear')  
        ->withoutOverlapping()
        ->everyFiveMinutes();
}

To check your schedule list, run this command

php artisan schedule:list

You're supposed to see your cron job and when it will be run next time

edited Nov 22 at 18:51

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answered Nov 22 at 16:42

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3 Comments

McRui Nov 22 at 16:56

Thanks, and I didn´t realize that. Nevertheless, I moved the commands after your code, and I get the error message ERROR: Non-static method Illuminate\Console\Scheduling\Schedule::command() cannot be called statically. Have to dig more into the new way Laravel 12 runs the commands.

McRui Nov 22 at 17:05

After changing the Schedule call to ´´use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schedule;``it is now working 😀🙏🙏 Thanks!

Ahmed Bermawy Nov 22 at 18:53

Sorry, forgot to add this line Thanks for your edit

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