Re: Stopping httpd.exe on windows (Apache Users)

On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Tim Streater <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I start httpd.exe from a PHP script, using this command string on Win7:

start /b "" /d "c:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation"\Apache2.2\bin httpd.exe -f z:\path\to\my\httpd.conf

where z: is some drive letter and the backslashes are doubled as they are within a PHP string. This appears to work OK. However, when it comes to stopping it I have an error message. I'm trying initially from the console prompt:

httpd.exe -k stop -f z:\path\to\my\httpd.conf

and the message is:

(OS 5)Access is denied. : failed to open the Apache2.2 Service

What is the right way to do this?

There's no "right way" unfortunately. (Somebody needs to add a "-k stopconsole" action to do the right thing.)

When you can't hit Ctrl-Break in the console window for an httpd running in a console, you have to whack the httpd processes forcibly, and hope that nothing needed to be cleaned up.

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Cheers -- Tim

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