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Date:      Mon, 24 Dec 2001 02:39:35 -0500
From:      Jud <jud@operamail.com>
To:        Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com>
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>

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On Mon, 24 Dec 2001 01:45:09 -0500
Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com> 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

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