On 12 Dec, Zack Brown wrote: > I installed apache, but at the end of the configuration stage it failed to > start, giving an error. I ran "apacheconfig", and got the following output > (essentially the same error):
> I don't know why it should have trouble finding my hostname. It's right > there in /etc/hostname. it's not looking at /etc/hostname. it's trying to work out what hostname it should send to a browser in reply to a request to a given ip address (namely the ip address of your network interface). put a line in /etc/hosts like this; 123.456.789.012 myhost.mydomain.com myhost where 123.456.789.012 is your ip address. if you've got a dynamic ip address, or that still doesn't work, look through your httpd.conf file until you find the line that looks like; #ServerName myhost.mydomain.com replace myhost.mydomain.com with what it should be, and remove the '#' from the start of the line. then try restarting apache. you shouldn't need to use the ServerName directive in simple cases though. apache should be able to work it out for itself if your system is set up correctly. -- Graham
