Restart Apache using Ant script for both unix and windows Systems? - apache

Question

I searched and found some ques as ** how to restart apache using nant script ** and tried similar code but got some message..i tried this code
<exec executable="${APACHE_HOME}/bin/httpd.exe">
<arg value="-k"/>
<arg value="restart"/>
</exec>
OUTPUT:
apache-restart:
[exec] [Tue Nov 15 19:58:18 2011] [error] (OS 2)The system cannot find the file specified. : No installed ser
vice named "Apache2.2".
[exec] Result: 2
And the reason for this is i guess Apache is not installed as a windows service.
I tried both but both have problems:
1) my cursor kept blinking and next statement echo was not reached.
<target name="test" depends="init">
<exec executable="${APACHE_HOME}/bin/httpd.exe">
</exec>
<echo message="hello "/>
</target>
OUTPUT:
test:
2)where is this taskkill file present ??
<target name="test" depends="init">
<exec executable="taskkill /im httpd.exe">
</exec>
<echo message="hello "/>
</target>
OUTPUT:
Execute failed: java.io.IOException: Cannot run progra
"taskkill \im httpd.exe": CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified
at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:460)

Answer 1

Well, install the service first with httpd.exe -k install
Or you can execute taskkill /im httpd.exe to kill apache and httpd.exe to start it again. You may want to add /f switch to taskkill also.