ServerName directive

[blackeyrichards]

I am having trouble when trying to run Apache. It gives me the following error:

APACHE.EXE: cannot determine local host name.
Use the ServerName directive to set it manually.

I have edited the http.cnfg file to include the line:
ServerName

http://123.456.78.90/

(but obviously containing my IP address.)

Unfortunately this seems to have no effect on the error message.

 

[pmkincaid]

You need to set the Server Name to be the FQDN of your server - ie webserver.mydomain.com not your IP Address.

Hope this helps,
Paul

 

[rycamor]

You *can* set your ServerName directive to your IP address, but you should use just the IP address, no other characters, such as '

http://'.

It should be

ServerName 123.456.78.90

If you have a DNS server pointing to the hostname of your Apache system, then you would want to use the Fully Qualified Domain Name -- again, without the '

http://'

or any slashes. So if your system hostname was 'myserver' on the domain 'mynetwork.com', then it would be

ServerName myserver.mynetwork.com