Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 21:30:13 +0000 From: Tofik Suleymanov <tofik@oxygen.az> To: snarmont@wnec.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish@planet.nl> Subject: Re: httpd could not be started Message-ID: <43C81BE5.2070003@oxygen.az> In-Reply-To: <32789224.1137178054226.JavaMail.root@m11> References: <32789224.1137178054226.JavaMail.root@m11>
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Steven Narmontas wrote:
>On Fri Jan 13 10:05:52 PST 2006, Kiffin Gish
><kiffin.gish@planet.nl> wrote:
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>>On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 09:55 -0800, Steven Narmontas wrote:
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>>
>>>...
>>>
>>>Everything to this point went smoothly! I edited
>>>/usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf ONLY to set the ServerName to
>>>the IP address of the machine. However, when I try to start
>>>apache I get:
>>>
>>>#/usr/local/sbin/apachectl start
>>>/usr/local/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>Maybe httpd-error.log contains some suspicious-looking error
>>messages?
>>
>>
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>Of course it does! duh!
>
>For the record, the error messages in httpd-error.log read:
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> [alert] mod_unique_id:unable to gethostbyname("xxxxx")
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>where xxxx was the made-up host name I used during the install.
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>I edited /etc/rc.conf to change hostname to a valid name, and
>apache now starts fine.
>
>Thank you!
>
>
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You could just add it to /etc/hosts :)
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