From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 16 12:54:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hermes.deadbbs.com (unknown [207.137.157.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C172137B479 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 12:54:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from erinlaptop (mongo.sdccd.cc.ca.us [209.129.16.5]) by hermes.deadbbs.com (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id eAGKsvQ12427 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 12:54:57 -0800 (PST) From: "Erin" To: Subject: RE: Apache starting problems. Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 12:54:36 -0800 Message-ID: <003b01c0500f$6e67c5c0$e815820a@sdccd.cc.ca.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <003301c0500a$dc0cdf20$e815820a@sdccd.cc.ca.us> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks everyone for getting back to me so fast. What I found was temporary (I hope) stupidity. I forgot about the ServerName in the global config section. I set it to my IP address and it works again. Thanks again. Erin > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Apache starting problems. > > > With a fresh install of 4.1 and apache 1.3.14 from the ports I get; > > [Thu Nov 16 12:20:48 2000] [alert] httpd: Could not determine > the server's > fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName > /usr/local/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started > > > This is before I even messed with the httpd.conf file. > > Does anyone know of a way to get around Apache looking up its FDQN? > > > Thanks, > > > Erin > > > mailto:kahn@deadbbs.com > http://www.deadbbs.com > http://www.fortenberry.net > > > Word of the Day : autodarwinate > > --Stephen Hocking > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message