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PHP XAMPP Restart Apache Through Browser – Plesk

I’m trying to create a WHM / Plesk Type Control Panel for my Clients to use. I am running XAMPP on a VPS and want users to be able to, for example, ban IP’s however for the change to take effect Apache needs to be restarted.

Is there a way using PHP the user can click a button and the Apache Service will restart?

I have tried using the following PHP code but all this does is Stop the Apache Server, it doesn’t bring it back up?

<?php shell_exec("apache_stop.bat"); ?>
<?php shell_exec("apache_start.bat"); ?>

Both bat files are in the same directory as the php file and I have amended them so that the files are relative to them by adding this …. to the file paths.

Is there one file that I can run that will do both tasks automatically or is there a better way to do this?

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    After you stop apache, it exit and do not start second job. You may use script that get this two jobs

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    You cannot restart Apache from a script. When the first shell_exec is called, the server process ends, and so the second call will never be made.

    As an alternative, I suggest you ban devices/IPs using PHP – perhaps save them in a text-file or database and check from there.

    Or, you can refer to the answers given for this question.

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