Plain text please... I'm not so sure you *can* do a graceful restart on Windows... The graceful restart is accomplished by apache handling the USR1 signal - this type of signal processing is a Unix facility which, to my knowledge, is not available on windows. There is a restart facility in windows described here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/platform/windows.html#winsvc What happens when you try that? Rgds, Owen Boyle Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored. -----Original Message----- From: dkrobbins@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:dkrobbins@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Donnerstag, 7. April 2005 17:11 To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [users@httpd] Apache Error On Restart I am a new Apache user and have setup Apache to run on a Windows 2003 server. We have setup Apache to work with Subversion and are able to work with our repositories. The one issue we have though, is that we get following error each time we try to restart the Apache service "The requested operation has failed!". If we stop and start the service, we do not get the error. Some of the information I found on Google suggested running "Test Configuration" to find out the source of the error. I receive a "Syntax OK" from the command. There are no entries in the error log. There is a error in the Application event log, but I am not sure what to do about it: Faulting application Apache.exe, version 2.0.52.0, faulting module libapr.dll, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x00004902. To address the "if the start/stop works, use it" comments... We would like to utilize the graceful restart, so we don't drop the connections of those doing Subversion activities when we restart the service. Any suggestions? Diese E-mail ist eine private und persönliche Kommunikation. Sie hat keinen Bezug zur Börsen- bzw. Geschäftstätigkeit der SWX Gruppe. This e-mail is of a private and personal nature. It is not related to the exchange or business activities of the SWX Group. Le présent e-mail est un message privé et personnel, sans rapport avec l'activité boursière du Groupe SWX. This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please notify the sender urgently and then immediately delete the message and any copies of it from your system. Please also immediately destroy any hardcopies of the message. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. The sender's company reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through their networks. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the message states otherwise and the sender is authorised to state them to be the views of the sender's company. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx