Apache starts with an error

[Eric Cope]

check your httpd.conf file. I recall having to set the hostname in that
conf file.

Eric


On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 2:21 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Hi,  I'm configuring a VPS at DigitalOcean and after installing Apache -
> yum install httpd, I try to start Apache with "service httpd start"  I get
> the following error:
>
> Starting httpd: httpd: apr_sockaddr_info_get() failed for host.domain.tld
> httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain
> name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName
>
> If I issue "service httpd status" it returns "httpd (pid  1764) is
> running..."
>
> I've searched the net and some suggest adding my FQDN to the hosts file.
> Is this the correct answer and if so do I just add a line like :
> host.domain.tld 255.255.255.255 where 255.255.255.255 is the IP of the VPS?
>
> Thank you so much for all your help!!
>
> Keith
>
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