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Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish@planet.nl>
Subject: Re: httpd could not be started
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Steven Narmontas wrote:

>On Fri Jan 13 10:05:52 PST 2006, Kiffin Gish 
><kiffin.gish@planet.nl> wrote:
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>>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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You could just add it to /etc/hosts :)