How do I stop the phusion passenger spawn server from restarting?

Question

I have Phusion Passenger running my Ruby on Rails application on my local machine, but I'd like to be able to kill the process entirely and run a different (non-Apache) service on the same port. Unfortunately, when I kill the passenger spawn server and the httpd processes, the spawn-server restarts:

15:30:37 /usr/bin $ ps ax | grep passenger
64659   ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.8/ext/apache2/ApplicationPoolServerExecutable 0 /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.8/bin/passenger-spawn-server  /usr/local/bin/ruby  /tmp/passenger.64642
15:34:43 /usr/bin $ sudo kill 64659
15:34:46 /usr/bin $ sudo kill 64642
15:34:52 /usr/bin $ ps ax | grep passenger
64698   ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.8/ext/apache2/ApplicationPoolServerExecutable 0 /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.8/bin/passenger-spawn-server  /usr/local/bin/ruby  /tmp/passenger.64681

How do I get phusion to stay dead (without rebooting the box)?

Answer 1

Hm. This worked:

sudo apachectl stop