Maff Wilson's Webby Home » servername http://maffwilson.co.uk Projects, notes, play and contact details. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:25:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 [Solved] Apache restart error: server’s fully qualified domain name http://maffwilson.co.uk/32-apache-restart-error http://maffwilson.co.uk/32-apache-restart-error#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:03:52 +0000 Maff http://maffwilson.co.uk/?p=32 It seems that Red Hat Fedora must have changed a few settings over recent upgrades because I had a few things stop working when I did a simple Apache conf change to point a website at some parking space.

After editing /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

I tried to restart with /sbin/services – where has this gone? In the end I had to resort to the ancient looking

/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart

Then I got the exciting Apache restart error

Starting httpd: httpd: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName

Ehh?

Seems the solution is this:

echo HOST.DOMAIN.com > /etc/hostname

where HOST = Your host name, DOMAIN = Your Domain Name

Followed by:

/bin/hostname -F /etc/hostname

Restart now works.

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