From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 23 23:39:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCF6137B416 for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 23:39:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-63.214.217.212.dial1.philadelphia1.level3.net ([63.214.217.212] helo=) by falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16IPhr-0006lX-00; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 23:39:32 -0800 Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 02:39:35 -0500 From: Jud To: Scott Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FQDN, Apache2, and Postfix Message-Id: <20011224023935.1bcc795b.jud@operamail.com> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20011224013852.00c57bb8@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> References: <20011224013346.264ddc0e.jud@operamail.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20011224013852.00c57bb8@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 24 Dec 2001 01:45:09 -0500 Scott wrote: > At 01:33 2001/12/24 -0500, Jud wrote: > >I installed the Apache 2 port a couple of weeks ago. When I try > >to run it (apachectl start), I get the following message: > > > >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 > > IIRC (trouble is, I was playing with Apache on a few flavors of Linux as > well as BSD, and I forget which problem I had where), I just had to add the > machine name to /etc/hosts---for instance if you went for the default of > localhost.localdomain and you're on a private network of 192.168.1.x and > your machine's IP is 192.168.1.100 > then add under that line of 127.0.0.1 localhost > 192.168.1.100 localhost.localdomain > > I'm pretty sure that's how I fixed it. Thanks for your response, but since I connect via dialup and my IP address is dynamically assigned by my ISP, I wouldn't think your solution is possible for me. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message