I can not start Apache

AGazzaz · 04-13-2008, 10:43 AM

Hello,

When I click "Start Apache" in webmin I get the following error:

Code:

Failed to start apache : 
Starting httpd: httpd: apr_sockaddr_info_get() failed for dhcppc3
httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName
[FAILED]

Apache was working before, until I faced alot of problems and ended up creating a new user.
What can I do to resolve this problem?

jimbo1708 · 04-13-2008, 10:51 AM

look into you apache configuration file for "ServerName" directive, uncomment it if it's commented, and insert here your machine name.

- Jim

AGazzaz · 04-13-2008, 11:06 AM

Thank you Jimbo,

but I still can not start the server.
first here is a copy of my local hosts file:

Code:

# generated by drakhosts
127.0.0.1 localhost mandy
192.168.1.103 ahmad ahmad

and here is the error I got when changing server name to any of these names

Code:

Failed to start apache : 
Starting httpd: [FAILED]

jimbo1708 · 04-13-2008, 11:16 AM

Can you post the contents of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf or whatever the name of your file might be.

- Jim

AGazzaz · 04-13-2008, 11:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jimbo1708

Can you post the contents of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf or whatever the name of your file might be.

- Jim

The file I edited:/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf (I hope it is the correct file)
This file is too long and nearly 20000 characters will be lost if I posted the whole file

can you tell me a specific portion of the file to post to you?
thanks.

custangro · 04-13-2008, 11:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AGazzaz

The file I edited:/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf (I hope it is the correct file)
This file is too long and nearly 20000 characters will be lost if I posted the whole file

can you tell me a specific portion of the file to post to you?
thanks.

FYI another good place to see is the apache error logs.

/var/www/log
/var/www/error

-C

AGazzaz · 04-13-2008, 11:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by custangro

FYI another good place to see is the apache error logs.

/var/www/log
/var/www/error

-C

I do not have a /var/www/log folder but I found another error_log in /etc/httpd/logs
and the file cotains:

Code:

Sat Apr 12 14:00:44 2008] [notice] core dump file size limit raised to 4294967295 bytes
[Sat Apr 12 14:00:44 2008] [alert] (EAI 2)Name or service not known: mod_unique_id: unable to find IPv4 address of "dhcppc3"
Configuration Failed
[Sun Apr 13 10:14:11 2008] [notice] core dump file size limit raised to 4294967295 bytes
[Sun Apr 13 10:14:11 2008] [alert] (EAI 2)Name or service not known: mod_unique_id: unable to find IPv4 address of "dhcppc3"
Configuration Failed
[Sun Apr 13 14:38:42 2008] [notice] core dump file size limit raised to 4294967295 bytes
[Sun Apr 13 14:38:43 2008] [alert] (EAI 2)Name or service not known: mod_unique_id: unable to find IPv4 address of "dhcppc3"
Configuration Failed
[Sun Apr 13 17:21:12 2008] [notice] core dump file size limit raised to 4294967295 bytes
[Sun Apr 13 17:21:13 2008] [alert] (EAI 2)Name or service not known: mod_unique_id: unable to find IPv4 address of "dhcppc3"
Configuration Failed
[Sun Apr 13 17:23:53 2008] [notice] core dump file size limit raised to 4294967295 bytes
[Sun Apr 13 17:23:53 2008] [alert] (EAI 2)Name or service not known: mod_unique_id: unable to find IPv4 address of "dhcppc3"
Configuration Failed
[Sun Apr 13 17:26:52 2008] [notice] core dump file size limit raised to 4294967295 bytes
[Sun Apr 13 17:26:52 2008] [alert] (EAI 2)Name or service not known: mod_unique_id: unable to find IPv4 address of "dhcppc3"
Configuration Failed
[Sun Apr 13 18:00:13 2008] [notice] core dump file size limit raised to 4294967295 bytes
[Sun Apr 13 18:00:13 2008] [alert] (EAI 2)Name or service not known: mod_unique_id: unable to find IPv4 address of "dhcppc3"
Configuration Failed
[Sun Apr 13 18:00:57 2008] [notice] core dump file size limit raised to 4294967295 bytes
[Sun Apr 13 18:00:57 2008] [alert] (EAI 2)Name or service not known: mod_unique_id: unable to find IPv4 address of "dhcppc3"
Configuration Failed
[Sun Apr 13 18:01:55 2008] [notice] core dump file size limit raised to 4294967295 bytes
[Sun Apr 13 18:01:55 2008] [alert] (EAI 2)Name or service not known: mod_unique_id: unable to find IPv4 address of "dhcppc3"
Configuration Failed
[Sun Apr 13 18:03:16 2008] [notice] core dump file size limit raised to 4294967295 bytes
[Sun Apr 13 18:03:16 2008] [alert] (EAI 2)Name or service not known: mod_unique_id: unable to find IPv4 address of "dhcppc3"
Configuration Failed
[Sun Apr 13 18:03:33 2008] [notice] core dump file size limit raised to 4294967295 bytes
[Sun Apr 13 18:03:33 2008] [alert] (EAI 2)Name or service not known: mod_unique_id: unable to find IPv4 address of "dhcppc3"
Configuration Failed
[Sun Apr 13 18:04:15 2008] [notice] core dump file size limit raised to 4294967295 bytes
[Sun Apr 13 18:04:15 2008] [alert] (EAI 2)Name or service not known: mod_unique_id: unable to find IPv4 address of "dhcppc3"
Configuration Failed

and I did not find any relevant information in /var/www/error

would be a good idea to reinstall Apache

jimbo1708 · 04-13-2008, 04:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AGazzaz

The file I edited:/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf (I hope it is the correct file)
This file is too long and nearly 20000 characters will be lost if I posted the whole file

can you tell me a specific portion of the file to post to you?
thanks.

Can you post

Code:

cat /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf | grep ServerName

I want to see if you have a directive 'ServerName' that specifies your server name.

- Jim

AGazzaz · 04-13-2008, 04:30 PM

The output of the command:

Code:

[linux@dhcppc3 ~]$ cat /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf | grep ServerName
# ServerName gives the name and port that the server uses to identify itself.
#ServerName www.example.com:80
ServerName ahmad:80
# ServerName directive.
#    ServerName dummy-host.example.com
[linux@dhcppc3 ~]$

jimbo1708 · 04-13-2008, 05:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AGazzaz

The output of the command:

Code:

[linux@dhcppc3 ~]$ cat /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf | grep ServerName
# ServerName gives the name and port that the server uses to identify itself.
#ServerName www.example.com:80
ServerName ahmad:80
# ServerName directive.
#    ServerName dummy-host.example.com
[linux@dhcppc3 ~]$

Hey AGazzaz,

I just commented out the ServerName Directive in my apache2.conf file and after reloading, I got this message

Code:

root@empire:/etc/apache2# /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
 * Reloading web server config...                                               5884
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName

I suggest that you add this line to the start of your configuration file but replace myfqndomain.com with your fqn.

Code:

ServerName myfqndomain.com

AGazzaz · 04-14-2008, 02:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jimbo1708

Hey AGazzaz,

I just commented out the ServerName Directive in my apache2.conf file and after reloading, I got this message

Code:

root@empire:/etc/apache2# /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
 * Reloading web server config...                                               5884
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName

I suggest that you add this line to the start of your configuration file but replace myfqndomain.com with your fqn.

Code:

ServerName myfqndomain.com

but I do not have a fully qualified domain name as it is a local developing server I used to type http://localhost

What can I put as the FQDN in the conf. file?

custangro · 04-14-2008, 09:55 AM

You can put "localhost" or "127.0.0.1"

-C

AGazzaz · 04-22-2008, 10:13 AM

Sorry for a very late feedback.
But I had an intention to switch eaither to SUSE or Mandriva 2008.1 but I did not like both so I am back to this problem.

Now I want to do this windows way

UnInstall Apache and PHP and install them again

How can I do this?