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Author: keith smith
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Subject: Re: Apache starts with an error
Thanks!!


 
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Keith Smith



On Sunday, March 16, 2014 2:49 PM, Eric Cope <> wrote:

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 <> 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:
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>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
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>If I issue "service httpd status" it returns "httpd (pid  1764) is running..."
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>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?
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>Thank you so much for all your help!!
>
>Keith
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