title: Basic Apache commands for a local Windows machine
body: <p>I have installed XAMPP on my Windows 7 machine and created a number of virtual servers. This part is straightforward enough.</p>
  
  <p>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.</p>
  
  <p>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.</p>
  
  <p>So my question is - where do I actually type <code>apache -k restart</code>?</p>