Re: [PLUG] Apache hostname problem

[Kevin Brosius <kbrosius@kns.com>]

Jon Galt wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> 
> > > When I run /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start, it gives me the following alert:
> > > Starting httpd: [Mon Feb 11 19:23:05 2002] [alert] httpd: Could not
> > > determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for
> > > ServerName
> >
> > Make sure you have a ServerName directive in your httpd.conf file:
> >
> > ServerName    aiur.bonsaisoftware.com
> 
> Ouch.  I'm sure you're right, but now all I get is:
> Starting httpd:                                      [FAILED]
> 
> There's obviously something else I need to do.
> 
> Dumb question:  does it need to nslookup bonsaisoftware.com?  I've had the
> name registered for a while, but it's not pointing anywhere yet and I'm
> not running bind (or whatever), which I suspect might be another whole
> can of worms.

What happens if you ping that hostname?  I'd guess you just need a way
to resolve the hostname.  Easiest way is to add it to /etc/hosts, with
it's local IP address (for the time being) until you go for the static
IP.  If you do NAT/firewalling, you may just leave it this way after you
get your static IP.  If you resolve the nslookup/DNS resolution and have
an always-on internet connection, then you can remove the name entry
from the hosts file.

-- 
Kevin Brosius

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