Topic: where is apachectl in windows?

[amishera]

The documentation says this:

"The recommended method of invoking the httpd executable is to use the apachectl control script. This script sets certain environment variables that are necessary for httpd to function correctly under some operating systems, and then invokes the httpd binary. apachectl will pass through any command line arguments, so any httpd options may also be used with apachectl. You may also directly edit the apachectl script by changing the HTTPD variable near the top to specify the correct location of the httpd binary and any command-line arguments that you wish to be always present.

The first thing that httpd does when it is invoked is to locate and read the configuration file httpd.conf. The location of this file is set at compile-time, but it is possible to specify its location at run time using the -f command-line option as in

/usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl -f /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf"

But I searched the installation directory ie. c:\program files\apache software foundations\apache2.2\bin

but there was no file name with such name. What is actually going on here?

[glsmith]

apachectl is only on Unix
I shall assume by your other post you figured out to call httpd.exe directly.

[wm003]

Or simply install it as a service

httpd.exe -k install