I had this problem recently helping someone with a potato system. The mahcine was not on the net. ftp , finger, telnet used the loopback device and the name in /etc/hosts and could find the local machine 'bigsky' . I am not sure why apache could not find it. But there was some file in /etc/apache that allows you to set the server name explictly. This is what I get when installing apache Stopping apache with apachectl ... Waiting for apache to terminate ...done. apache: cannot determine local host name. Use the ServerName directive to set it manually. So add the line ServerName yourhostname to /etc/apache/httpd.conf
Then do apachectl restart and your pages should be found by netscape. This is proabably a kludge , but it works. -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre
