On Sat, 26 Sep 2015 18:05:58 +0100, Tim Streater
<timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:

I'm running 2.2.31 under Win7, quite satisfactorily. I obtained this
Win32 version from Apache Haus. However, I seem unable to use the -k
option. I want to use it to have the server restart gracefully when I
have rotated the log files.

My attempts to use it fail. What I see in the error log is the Usage: >information, followed by:

httpd.exe: illegal option -- k

Suggestions appreciated. I'm supposing this can't be a config file
matter, as I would assume the startup options are processed first. The >failing command looks like:

httpd.exe -k restart -f "e:\path\to\httpd.conf"

The -k option has a different meaning in MSWindows, it handles
(un)installing Apache as a windows service.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/platform/windows.html

Stopping/restarting can be done with the MSWindows service
commands (net.exe, sc.exe) or the management GUI.
I'm not sure whether "graceful" is an option in MSWindows.

Hope this helps.
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Regards,
Kees Nuyt
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In article <ltsg0b95gg1pa8so8urn6abeepvu0i5vtp@dim53.demon.nl>, Kees
Nuyt <k.nuyt@nospam.demon.nl> wrote:

On Sat, 26 Sep 2015 18:05:58 +0100, Tim Streater
<timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:

I'm running 2.2.31 under Win7, quite satisfactorily. I obtained this
Win32 version from Apache Haus. However, I seem unable to use the -k >>option. I want to use it to have the server restart gracefully when I
have rotated the log files.

My attempts to use it fail. What I see in the error log is the Usage: >>information, followed by:

httpd.exe: illegal option -- k

Suggestions appreciated. I'm supposing this can't be a config file
matter, as I would assume the startup options are processed first. The >>failing command looks like:

httpd.exe -k restart -f "e:\path\to\httpd.conf"

The -k option has a different meaning in MSWindows, it handles
(un)installing Apache as a windows service.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/platform/windows.html

Stopping/restarting can be done with the MSWindows service
commands (net.exe, sc.exe) or the management GUI.
I'm not sure whether "graceful" is an option in MSWindows.

Yes, I saw those docs before, although perhaps at the time I read them
I perhaps didn't quite appreciate what a "service" is in Windows. The
commands I am giving, to start/restart are being sent from a PHP
script, using popen. I can start it OK, it's the restart that's giving
the problem (I think restart implies graceful).

Since posting I've tried such as:

httpd.exe -k install -n "myservicename" -f "e:\path\to\httpd.conf"

followed by:

httpd.exe -k start -n "myservicename"

which at least don't (seem) to be giving me "illegal option -- k" any
longer so that might be progress but they are failing silently. I might
do better than to simplify my test setup and try again so I can get at
the fail error messages.

Thanks for the response.

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with what Bob in accounting bought last year. Trace it back - they buy Microsoft because the IBM Selectric didn't suck much" - P Seebach, afc
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On Mon, 28 Sep 2015 10:57:34 +0100, Tim Streater
<timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:

In article <ltsg0b95gg1pa8so8urn6abeepvu0i5vtp@dim53.demon.nl>, Kees
Nuyt <k.nuyt@nospam.demon.nl> wrote:

On Sat, 26 Sep 2015 18:05:58 +0100, Tim Streater
<timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:

I'm running 2.2.31 under Win7, quite satisfactorily. I obtained this >>>Win32 version from Apache Haus. However, I seem unable to use the -k >>>option. I want to use it to have the server restart gracefully when I >>>have rotated the log files.

My attempts to use it fail. What I see in the error log is the Usage: >>>information, followed by:

httpd.exe: illegal option -- k

Suggestions appreciated. I'm supposing this can't be a config file >>>matter, as I would assume the startup options are processed first. The >>>failing command looks like:

httpd.exe -k restart -f "e:\path\to\httpd.conf"

The -k option has a different meaning in MSWindows, it handles >>(un)installing Apache as a windows service.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/platform/windows.html

Stopping/restarting can be done with the MSWindows service
commands (net.exe, sc.exe) or the management GUI.
I'm not sure whether "graceful" is an option in MSWindows.

Yes, I saw those docs before, although perhaps at the time I
read them I perhaps didn't quite appreciate what a "service" is
in Windows. The commands I am giving, to start/restart are being
sent from a PHP script, using popen. I can start it OK, it's the
restart that's giving the problem (I think restart implies
graceful).

Since posting I've tried such as:

httpd.exe -k install -n "myservicename" -f "e:\path\to\httpd.conf"

followed by:

httpd.exe -k start -n "myservicename"

which at least don't (seem) to be giving me "illegal option --
k" any longer so that might be progress but they are failing
silently. I might do better than to simplify my test setup and
try again so I can get at the fail error messages.

Thanks for the response.

You're welcome.
Last time I used Apache on Windows is about 8 years ago.
I remember having similar problems. My solution at the time
was to run it from a CMD.EXE box, and not install it as a service.
That solution obviously has other limitations.

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Regards,
Kees Nuyt
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I'm running 2.2.31 under Win7, quite satisfactorily. I obtained this
Win32 version from Apache Haus. However, I seem unable to use the -k
option. I want to use it to have the server restart gracefully when I
have rotated the log files.

My attempts to use it fail. What I see in the error log is the Usage: information, followed by:

httpd.exe: illegal option -- k

Suggestions appreciated. I'm supposing this can't be a config file
matter, as I would assume the startup options are processed first. The
failing command looks like:

httpd.exe -k restart -f "e:\path\to\httpd.conf"

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