How to restart a wordpress site?

It seems most apps have a /bin folder with a start script. The Wordpress sites don't have that. My WP site was broken just now, and I searched around but couldn't find a way to restart apache. It's back on now. But how can I do this (if it is possible) in future?

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asked 07 Feb '12, 14:11

victoriachan
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edited 07 Feb '12, 14:11

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WordPress uses PHP, and our PHP setup uses PHP-CGI by default. This means that each request to your site is handled by a single PHP-CGI process that handles the request and then ends. So, in effect, your WordPress app starts and stops with every request, and there's nothing to restart.

Hope that helps!

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answered 07 Feb '12, 14:19

seanf
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Ah I see, thanks!

(07 Feb '12, 15:03) victoriachan

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