@@ -150,7 +150,12 @@ function stop_apache_server {

 # restart_apache_server

 function restart_apache_server {

-    restart_service $APACHE_NAME

+    # Apache can be slow to stop, doing an explicit stop, sleep, start helps

+    # to mitigate issues where apache will claim a port it's listening on is

+    # still in use and fail to start.

+    stop_service $APACHE_NAME

+    sleep 3

+    start_service $APACHE_NAME

 }

 # Restore xtrace