ColdFusion stopped = Apache unresponsive

In my local development set up, I sometimes don’t want to have ColdFusion running as I’ll be working on something that’s just HTML, JavaScript or using another language like PHP (don’t tell no one!). Everytime I tried this, Apache would crawl to a halt when requesting non-ColdFusion files (css, html, js, php etc…). If I started ColdFusion up, everything worked perfectly, maybe life is just better with ColdFusion always on