stopping Apache on Win98

I've seen this question asked a couple of other times on this group but
haven't seen a satisfactory answer. Apache doesn't seem to want to stop on
Win 98. 'Apache -k stop' reports that it is stopping for a few moments and
then reports that it couldn't stop it. The reason may be something to do
with the fact that the pid in the httpd.pid file is not the same as the
process id as reported by something like Norton Process Viewer. The only way
to stop it seems to be killing it from Process Viewer. Has anyone else
solved this problem?

Thanks.

John.

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On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 10:56:22 +1000, The Other Guy responded to a post
from "John F" <jford.TakeThisOut@mira.net> who wrote in alt.apache.configuration:

 >I've seen this question asked a couple of other times on this group but
 >haven't seen a satisfactory answer. Apache doesn't seem to want to stop on
 >Win 98. 'Apache -k stop' reports that it is stopping for a few moments and
 >then reports that it couldn't stop it. The reason may be something to do
 >with the fact that the pid in the httpd.pid file is not the same as the
 >process id as reported by something like Norton Process Viewer. The only way
 >to stop it seems to be killing it from Process Viewer. Has anyone else
 >solved this problem?
 >
 >Thanks.
 >
 >John.

Hi John,

I have the same problem on one of my machines (Apache on WIN98 for
site testing/development). I use CTTL+ALT+DEL and kill the program.
The latest release of Apache is not really optimized for WIN98, much
less so than the previous 2.x versions, IMHO.

It has been reported as a bug, but remains unresolved at this point, I
think.

Regards,
TOG

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