Apache Not Accepting Requests

Mytob · 05-18-2009, 01:05 PM

Iv just got a new centos 5 vps and am trying to get apache going on it but am having real problems in doing so. It has come with Apache PHP and mySQL installed on by defult and I have the ip address. I have logged into it and fired it up initialy but got the following error message

Code:

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

I asume it is binding it 127.0.0.1 and not listening to any requests on the external ip address. The hosts file contains the following

Code:

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1		localhost localhost.localdomain localhost
::1		localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6

I have fiddled with it so it looked like

Code:

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1		localhost.localdomain localhost

93.174.138.59		server.darkcry.com server

but it still did not work. Any ideas whats up? httpd.conf has not been changed.

bathory · 05-18-2009, 01:34 PM

Edit httpd.conf and use:

Code:

ServerName server.darkcry.com

Mind that server.darkcry.com resolves to a different ip from the one in your /etc/hosts

Mytob · 05-19-2009, 07:44 AM

Ok you have confused me lol! Looking at another server that I run the hosts file contains

Code:

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1		localhost.localdomain localhost

193.34.144.92		rbi0392.giga-dns.com rbi0392

You will find the ip and the address are not the same but yet Apache displays a page when you plug in the ip address in a browser. So im kinda lost at what you are trying to get at lol!

bathory · 05-19-2009, 09:19 AM

Just to clear things out:
The message you get is harmless. In fact it's just a warning and apache should start normally. To fix it use a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) for the ServerName directive in httpd.conf.
The file /etc/hosts is used to match a hostname with an ip. In your case I've just pointed out that server.darkcry.com resolves to a different ip, than the one in /etc/hosts.:

Quote:

dig server.darkcry.com

; <<>> DiG 9.6.1b1 <<>> server.darkcry.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 55111
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 4

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;server.darkcry.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
server.darkcry.com. 20928 IN A 77.232.72.250

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
darkcry.com. 20928 IN NS ns3.servage.net.
darkcry.com. 20928 IN NS ns1.servage.net.
darkcry.com. 20928 IN NS ns2.servage.net.
darkcry.com. 20928 IN NS ns4.servage.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.servage.net. 69801 IN A 77.232.76.14
ns2.servage.net. 69801 IN A 217.70.34.151
ns3.servage.net. 69801 IN A 77.232.66.6
ns4.servage.net. 69801 IN A 77.232.81.1

So you have to check with your hosting company to find the correct IP, so that your server can be visible from the internet.

Regards

Mytob · 05-21-2009, 07:44 AM

Thanks for that! Il have a go with it now.