On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Tim Streater <t...@clothears.org.uk> 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. > -- > Cheers -- Tim > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > -- Born in Roswell... married an alien... http://emptyhammock.com/
