Apache starts with an error

[Nathan England]

Your httpd.conf file should have a line like

ServerName www.yourdomain.tld

which should be it's primary FQDN



On Sunday, March 16, 2014 03:28:28 PM keith smith wrote:
> Thanks!!
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> Keith Smith
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> On Sunday, March 16, 2014 2:49 PM, Eric Cope <eric.cope at gmail.com> 
wrote:
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> check your httpd.conf file. I recall having to set the hostname in that 
conf
> file.
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> Eric
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> 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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