Hello,

My Httpd restart fails. I get the following error message:

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

Can someone please give me some direction

THank you.

What do you have set for the servername in the configuration?

in my httpd.conf file this is what i have

#ServerName new.host.name:80

Should i change

#ServerName new.host.name:80 -> #ServerName mydomain.dyndns.org:80?

I tried that and it didnt really work. so i just changed it back to default setting.

here are some more settings:

192.168.0.100 = Linux box lan IP from router
55.66.77.88 = internet/cable modem IP

This is what my /etc/hosts file looks like

# do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.0.100 whatever.dyndns.org
# 55.66.77.88 whatever.dyndns.org


I've also read on a post about the # neat command

This is what i have, all my fields are blank, WHAT and WHERE should i be filling in?

DNS (tab)
Hostname: ?
Primary DNS: ?
Secondary DNS: ?
Tertiary DNS: ?
DNS search path: ?

Hosts (tab)
IP: 192.16.190.100 Name:whatever.dyndns.org Aliasesblank)

ServerName ought to be set to the name your Web server, in your case whatever.dyndns.org. In this case, the # character at the beginning of the line signifies a comment, so you need to take that out and have just

ServerName whatever.dyndns.org

Also, as you message states, the httpd start is not failing, it's just warning you that it couldn't find a good ServerName so it's just using 127.0.0.1 -- this won't actually hurt anything although it may confuse some visitors who get 404s and other errors, as the ServerName is by default displayed on server generated error pages.

Removing the # in the front so its actually read would help.

#<--Means its either not configured or used for comments.

<-- No # means it will attempt to be read from the config file.

And you don't need to specify the :80 at the end on this part of your configuration, that's a few lines above in your configuration.