Am 16. Sep, 2002 schwätzte Mark Berkwitt so:

> In my PHP4 book they advise going into httpd.conf and setting the
> ServerName name
> to the box name
> echo $HOSTNAME.
> So far I don't see a problem happening, but what if strange things happen and
> inexperience prevents me from identifying them.
> My box name is not what I set it. I think when I registered with Redhat via
> rhn_register it was changed for me to something unique for their db.
> Anyway, I hate to change something if it ain't broke.

For http you'll be fine. For https, you should get them to match.

ciao,

der.hans
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