Just emerged Apache2

Thaidog · 02-08-2009, 02:55 AM

I just emerged apache2 and did a: /etc/init.d/apache2 start

I can not see the default web page "It works!"

I do get a few messages at startup:

icc_project_ia32 init.d # /etc/init.d/apache2 start
* Caching service dependencies ...
* Starting apache2 ...
apache2: apr_sockadr_info_get() failed for icc_project_ia32
apache2: Coud not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for Servername

Any ideas on what I need to do?

Pearlseattle · 02-08-2009, 06:40 AM

The last message is ok - I'm getting it but my apache works fine.
About the second last message I'm not sure. What do you have in your "/etc/hosts"? In my case I have:

Code:

# IPv4 and IPv6 localhost aliases
127.0.0.1       localhost
::1             localhost
127.0.0.1       notebook_hp

raskin · 02-08-2009, 12:44 PM

Apache tries to determine what should it tell about your server name on, say, error pages. It failed (it knows that localhost is not a meaningful server name), and as it is listening only on 127.0.0.1 it uses that IP instead of nice.domain.name on 404 page etc.

Thaidog · 02-08-2009, 05:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by raskin

Apache tries to determine what should it tell about your server name on, say, error pages. It failed (it knows that localhost is not a meaningful server name), and as it is listening only on 127.0.0.1 it uses that IP instead of nice.domain.name on 404 page etc.

The server has a hostname... what do I need to add to get it recognized?

raskin · 02-08-2009, 11:40 PM

Make sure Apache is started when IP is already assigned to the interface and set your hostname to the name of the server. Or you can specify ServerName in httpd.conf . http://httpd.apache.org/docs has more information on that..