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I built a Joomla plugin for a task and I scheduled that task to run every 5 minutes. While monitoring the task it seems it is only running when I am logged into the administrator back end if the site. Does anyone know how to make this run when not logged in?

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    Post the codes of your plugin.
    – Jumbo
    Commented May 31, 2022 at 15:34
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    Are you using Lazy Scheduler to trigger your tasks? And is this on your local development environment?
    – Irata ♦
    Commented May 31, 2022 at 15:44

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Like Irata suggested, you are probably using Joomla's lazy scheduler to trigger the tasks. Lazy means that it only works when your website is visited.

You could create one cron job on your server that visits your website every 5 minutes to trigger any scheduled tasks you have configured in your Joomla site.

You can read more about the Task Scheduler in the Joomla Community Magazine edition of March 2022: https://magazine.joomla.org/all-issues/march-2022/get-to-know-the-new-joomla-task-scheduler

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