Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:47:34 -0800 (PST) From: Steven Narmontas <snarmont@wnec.edu> To: Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish@planet.nl>, snarmont@wnec.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: httpd could not be started Message-ID: <32789224.1137178054226.JavaMail.root@m11>
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On Fri Jan 13 10:05:52 PST 2006, Kiffin Gish
<kiffin.gish@planet.nl> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 09:55 -0800, Steven Narmontas wrote:
>> ...
>>
>> Everything to this point went smoothly! I edited
>> /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf ONLY to set the ServerName to
>> the IP address of the machine. However, when I try to start
>> apache I get:
>>
>> #/usr/local/sbin/apachectl start
>> /usr/local/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started
>>
>
> Maybe httpd-error.log contains some suspicious-looking error
> messages?
>
Of course it does! duh!
For the record, the error messages in httpd-error.log read:
[alert] mod_unique_id:unable to gethostbyname("xxxxx")
where xxxx was the made-up host name I used during the install.
I edited /etc/rc.conf to change hostname to a valid name, and
apache now starts fine.
Thank you!
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