[SOLVED] Apache replies "Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified..."

[krazeel]

Hello,

 

I'm a first-time user of the PHP Freaks forums and I say hi to all of you - especially those who could give me a hand!

So what happens is that I installed yesterday Apache 2 in Ubuntu, compiling the source code from Terminal. I don't know if any of you has ever installed a LAMP environment, but I guess it's not crucial for you to understand this particular message:

"httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName"

I get this message when I start and stop Apache from terminal - what would be like Windows Command Line. I searched this issue in google and I found some information, but I couldn't get specific enough answers. What I would like to know initially is why is this httpd reply displayed whenever I start or stop Apache and how should it look like if it was correctly configured.

 

Thanks

[trq]

It would appear your hostname isn't set properly on the machine.

 

What is the output of the following....

 

cat /etc/hosts

[krazeel]

Thanks for the quick response 

This is the output:

127.0.0.1 localhost

127.0.1.1 ab-desktop

 

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts

::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback

fe00::0 ip6-localnet

ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix

ff02::1 ip6-allnodes

ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

[krazeel]

Well problem solved, I set the ServerName in the httpd.conf file and there were no more errors.