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Restarting Herd Services

It might happen that Herd displays that a service like CGI-PHP is not running for a specific PHP version. This can happen if Herd is unable to properly shut down all background services when you close the app.

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Via the GUI

You may force a restart of all Herd services by stopping all running services and starting them again. Under the hood, this stops all existing instances of a service and might even stop services that you've installed separately.

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Via the terminal

To kill all stray services, open Powershell with admin privileges and perform the taskkill command for every service that is still running, naming the services.

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Force a shutdown of all Herd services

# Stop main services
taskkill /F /IM php-cgi.exe
taskkill /F /IM nginx.exe
 
# Stop Pro services
taskkill /F /IM mysqld.exe
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