You might want to try uninstalling httpd, then reinstalling but this time tell it to put it in c:\apache\ instead of letting it drop into the default Program Files location. I suspect something isn't liking all the spaces in the path to the binary file. -----Original Message----- From: Michael Hipp [mailto:Michael@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2008 2:09 PM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: httpd.exe -k restart not working on Windows console I've installed Apache 2.2.10 on my Windows XP laptop for testing purposes. I did *not* install it as a service but am running it as a console application on port 80. According to this: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/platform/windows.html#wincons I should be able to do 'httpd.exe -k restart' to have it reload so I can test different configurations easily. But when I do that it says: >"C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\bin\httpd.exe" -k restart [Sat Nov 22 13:32:31 2008] [error] (OS 2)The system cannot find the file specified. : No installed service named "Apache2.2". Any ideas on how I can get this to work? Thanks, Michael Hipp Heber Springs, Arkansas, USA --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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