Fully qualified domain name

Kurt Wall kwall
Sat Dec 25 18:25:50 PST 2004


On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 02:15:04PM -0600, Alma J Wetzker took 46 lines to write:
; 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

Chnage the value of ServerName to something that's valid.

Kurt
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