CRON command to run URL address every 5 minutes

I'm newbie in cron commands and I need help.

I have a script on http://example.com/check/.

Whats is command for cron to run this URL every 5 minutes?

I tried

*/5 * * * * /home/test/check.php

But I want to run URL not relative script address. How to do it?

Based on the comments try

*/5 * * * * wget http://example.com/check

[Edit: 10 Apr 2017]

This answer still seems to be getting a few hits so I thought I'd add a link to a new page I stumbled across which may help create cron commands: https://crontab.guru

Use cURL:

*/5 * * * * curl http://example.com/check/

The other advantage of using curl is that you also can keep the HTTP way of sending parameters to your script if you need to, by using $_GET, $_POST etc like this:

*/5 * * * * curl --request GET 'http://exemple.com/path/check.php?param1=1&param2=2'

Here is an example of the wget script in action:

wget -q -O /dev/null "http://example.com/cronjob.php" > /dev/null 2>&1

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

And the >/dev/null 2>&1 will instruct standard output to be redirected to a black hole. So no message from the executing program is returned to the screen.