Re: Close apache console from XP/2003/Vista

[Matthew Gregory <matthew+apache@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for this, I had tried the GenerateConsoleEvent api before without 
success, although reading that page the author is creating a remote 
thread to call the api from within the Apache process rather than 
externally so I'll play around with that.

Thanks,
Matt

Eric Covener wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Matthew Gregory
> <matthew+apache@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > My question is this: how can I gracefully close apache? The docs say to use
> > "httpd -k stop" but on our target platforms this always tries to stop the
> > service but we are actually running as a console. There is mention of using
> > kill on unix but I cannot find a suitable windows equivilant.
>
> I've used e a little windows utility, SendSignal.exe, to send
> cntrl-break to a similar a program in some automation.
>
> http://www.latenighthacking.com/projects/2003/sendSignal/
>
> Unfortunately it didn't look like any of the sysinsternals tools would
> do it, but I may have just missed it.


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