installing apache on debian, apt-get error
hello everyone,
i posted this same topic on the installation forum, but i'm posting it here too, since it could be a newbie question. i'm new to debian linux (or linux for that matter), and i'm having problems installing apache. i type: apt-get install apache everything seems fine, until i get this message: ========================================== apache: cannot determine host name. Use the ServerName directives to set it manually. /usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started. Configuration failed! Run "apacheconfig" to try this again later. =========================================== what do you think i should do? is it just a matter of changing the text in some configuration files? which ones? help :) thanks a lot. ramel. |
if yopu get this message that the hostname cannot be found, this usually means, that there are more then one hostnames set for the same IP.
edit the file /etc/hosts (i think) and the file /etc/hostname hsotname should contain the FQDN of the local machine. /etc/hosts should contain: 127.0.0.1 localhost you.r.ip.add short hostname FQDN (same as in /etc/hostname) this should solve the problem cya |
thanks raven, i'll try it out. :)
the main reason i'm trying to set up a web server is to get the cgi-bin working, since i've decided to learn pearl & cgi. i thought i might as well set up a local web server, instead of always uploading stuff to test in sites like prohosting. setting up the apache wasn't as easy as i'd originally thought it was going to be. i finally bought the book the "linux apache webserver administration" by charles auld. i don't even know what FQDN means, yet. is it the name i gave my computer? i guess i might as well try to know what i'm doing, right? :) again, thanks! i'll try it out. |
well than have fun reading, and configuring :-)
besides: FQDN is the Fully Qualified Domain Name and yes it is the name of your machine. format is: host.domain cya raven |
again, thanks raven! :)
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