I have installed XAMPP on my Windows 7 machine and created a number of virtual servers. This part is straightforward enough.
Each time I add a new virtual server I am having to reboot my computer in order to reboot the Apache server, which is of course quite time consuming.
I have googled and found the correct console commands to use to reboot Apache, but absolutely non of the references that I have found actually tell you where to type the relevant commands! A certain level of knowledge is assumed.
So my question is - where do I actually type apache -k restart?
For frequent uses of this command I found it easy to add the location of C:\xampp\apache\bin to the PATH. Use whatever directory you have this installed in.
Then you can run from any directory in command line:
httpd -k restart
The answer above that suggests httpd -k -restart is actually a typo. You can see the commands by running httpd /?
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