Greetings all. I recently tried to install web server on RH9 Linux. No problem w/ installation itself. However....starting it is a problem.

I get this message: httpd failed. The error was: Starting httpd: httpd:
Could not determine the server's fully qualified
domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName
[FAILED]

Part of the problem may be my network 'localhost' setup/config. Please note when I login, I get this warning message: Could not look up internet address for CPE00e06f23ccf1-CM00e06f23ccf0.
This will prevent GNOME from operating correctly.
It may be possible to correct the problem by adding
CPE00e06f23ccf1-CM00e06f23ccf0 to the file /etc/hosts.

I can login anyway and I have working internet connection.

Now, I've tried appending "CPE00e06f23ccf1-CM00e06f23ccf0" to /etc/hosts file using the cat >> command. I still get this warning message at every login. And when in the Terminal (bash) I'm user@CPE00e06f23ccf1-CM00e06f23ccf0 instead of user@localhost. How do I go about changing the setting/s so I'm user@localhost?

Also note that I'm connected via USB to a Terayon cable modem (Ethernet card not 100%) Any helpful feedback is greatly appreciated.

Just open your /etc/hosts file and append CPE00e06f23ccf1-CM00e06f23ccf0 to the line that looks something like:

127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain

That hideous name is apparently your DHCP host name so you need to alias it to the local loopback IP (127.0.0.1) since apparently it's not being resolved via your DNS. You may need to add your ISP's domain name to the hostname -- try issuing the hostname command in Linux to see what your hostname actually is.

Oh, and be careful running a server on such an old distro. Make sure you have all the Red Hat and Fedora legacy patches applied. You do know that RH9 is out of support, right?