Re: weird HTTPD error message


Subject: Re: weird HTTPD error message
From: Mike Tibor (tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu)
Date: Tue Jun 10 2003 - 18:31:43 AKDT


On Sun, 8 Jun 2003, Scott Johnson wrote:

> Trying to start HTTPD I get "
> Failed to start apache :
> Starting httpd: httpd: Could not determine the server's fully qualified
> domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName
> [FAILED]"A search of Google seems to indicate this is an error in my
> httpd.conf file, but I can't figure out what the error is.Ideas?Thanks.

In my experience this is normally a dns issue--apache's telling you that
it can't successfully resolve it's own hostname.

The most recent case where I got that message was when the only nameserver
line I had in /etc/resolv.conf was 127.0.0.1, but named wasn't running so
it couldn't do the dns lookup.

Mike

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