How to flush Apache cache

[Judahnator]

Me and a friend were working on our website tonight. We noticed that updates wouldnt appear on the website.

 

We added a few things, mostly images. No change. I followed these steps, all with no effect on the code received by the browser:

 

1: Add content,

2: Remove added content and comment out a few existing images,

3: Cleared FireFox cache,

4: Tried using Chrome,

5: Loaded LAN IP instead of domain name in FireFox,

6: Loaded LAN IP on my mothers laptop (which has never accessed the site before),

7: Removed index.php from home directory (hoping for 404, but it still loaded),

8: Restarted server,

 

I can change, and see the changes in the browser, any other file. For example, if i were to rename file1.php to file2.php and tried to access file1.php i would get a 404. But if i were to rename index.php to not_index.php i would still load index.php as if it still existed.

 

Does anyone know how to flush Apache's cache? With the exception of PHP5 and PHP5-MYSQL, Apache has been nearly unchanged from the time it was installed.

 

 

Thanks