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From: Steven Narmontas <snarmont@wnec.edu>
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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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