As my linux box boots I see all my services starting. For instance

eth0: [OK]
lo: [OK]
httpd: [ok]


except whenever httpd: tries to start it says the following:

cannot determine fully qualified domain name using 127.0.0.1 and localhost.

Can someone tell me what this means?

Thanks ahead.

Brendan

That basically means that the machine you are running is not a DNS Server and there is no authoritative DNS Server available to give it a fully qualified domain name. For example, if your machine name is AMADEUS, and your domain is MUSIC.COM, the DNS server would add on the domain name and the machine would be called AMADEUS.MUSIC.COM. I hope that I made sense to you.

go to start, hat, kde, or whatever gets you to the menu using the icon on the bottom left, choose system, and then apache configuration, where it says server name fill it in!

for example my.site.com i named mine ns1.ikwote.com since i purchased that domain name. actually you can put anything you want and change it at any time. select ok and save the changes.


now if you are really new to this than just restart you're computer, if you can get to a konsole just type "service httpd start" and youre done. later if you make any changes to it while httpd is running just go to the console and type "service httpd restart"

Hows that for an answer. I personnaly get sick of answers that don't make sence. I'm sure you wanted just a walk thru and that's exactly what i did for you. hope this solved you're problem. usually this happends on installing linux for the first time and just letting it use dhcp by default instead of filling in the values. Have fun!