Fully qualified domain name

[Net Llama!]

On 12/25/2004 12:15 PM, Alma J Wetzker wrote:

> Net Llama! wrote:
> 
>> On 12/25/2004 11:19 AM, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
>>
>>> Things are a bit crazy here so I haven't searched as much as I should 
>>> have.
>>>
>>> I have a Gentoo box that has a hostname but fails to pickup the 
>>> domain name. I am using a generic belkin firewall/NAT router that 
>>> assigns the IP using DHCP.  I have wetzker.org assigned as the domain 
>>> in the router.
>>>
>>> The real issue is that apache2 will not start without the FQDN and I 
>>> need the web server running because I will be out of town and need 
>>> access to my system.
>>
>>
>>
>> that doesn't make much sense.  i've got apache running on many systems 
>> that lack a FQDN.  What is the exact error you're getting?
>>
>>>
>>> Any ideas?   TIA
>>
>>
>>
>> ssh?
>>
> from the startup file in /etc/init.d
> 
> # /usr/sbin/apache2 -t ${APACHE2_OPTS}
> apache2: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, 
> using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName
> Syntax OK
> 
> The error I get is that there is an error with the configuration file is
> 
> # ./apache2 start
>  * Apache2 has detected a syntax error in your configuration files:

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