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PostPosted: Tue Apr 23, 2002 5:58 am    Post subject: starting apache Reply with quote

I just got gentoo installed, but i am having trouble with its daemon control scripts. I am trying to start apache with no luck. when i run " /etc/init.d/apache start" it fails with no error message. When i try to run apachectl start it fails as well. Is there anythink special i have to do in gentoo to get this working ? I can't get dhcp to start up either. samba seems to start up fine tho.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 23, 2002 6:55 am    Post subject: Re: starting apache Reply with quote

michael wrote:
...it fails with no error message. When i try to run apachectl start it fails as well.


It should at least drop something in /var/log/apache/error_log

See if there's anything relevant in there, if you're not sure, paste it.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 23, 2002 7:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

good advice. there were some messages in the log.

[Mon Apr 22 23:16:38 2002] [alert] mod_unique_id: unable to gethostbyname("harbinge")

Which reminded me that i had changed the config file, uncommenting the "ServerName" line and adding the name of my machine. (this is the only modification i made to apache.conf) I tried commenting it out again, and got

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

and apache fails to start.
-michael[/quote]
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 23, 2002 10:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

mfairchi wrote:
I tried commenting it out again, and got

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


That's bad practice. Could break some things. If you don't have a real FQDN or at least an alias for your machine, put your machine's internet IP for ServerName.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 23, 2002 4:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I remember I solved the problem by modifying a line in (hosts, or hostname or resolv.conf, I don't remember exactly):
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 23, 2002 7:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

sure enough, the file needing work was hosts. Thanks

As for the bad practice of commenting out the ServerName, that is how it came from Gentoo.

-thanks for the help :)
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 24, 2002 9:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anonymous wrote:
As for the bad practice of commenting out the ServerName, that is how it came from Gentoo.


Commenting out is fine, That will tell Apache to look at /etc/hostname for the host name. I'm talking about setting server name to 127.0.0.1 :?
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