HTTP not starting

[woodyak]

HTTP doesn't start on a clean install of RedHat 6.2. The message reads "httpd: cannot determine local host name. Use the ServerName directive to set it manually." What do I do?

[woodyak]

Nevermind. I needed a static IP address. It doesn't work with DHCP.

[ferrol]

Yer it does

Just set ServerName to localhost then restart it it should be fine

[tecknophreak]

That should be in linuxconf if you don't know that already

[Rob 'Feztaa' Park]

I had this problem myself, the solution for me was simple (not sure if this will help you).

If, during the install, you specified a hostname that doesn't actually exist (if you're a home user and your ISP doesn't give your IP a hostname), then you can solve this problem in two ways:

1. get a service like DynDNS to give you a hostname, and set your machine's hostname to that.

or

2. put your machine's hostname and ip address into /etc/hosts

The problem with #2, though, is that Apache will report it's hostname incorrectly in any error messages that it gives to users. For example, when I was using solution #2, people would access my website at feztron.mine.nu, but if they got a 403 error (from snooping where they shouldn't be... :), Apache would say it was running on feztron.ed.shawcable.net, but if anybody tried to go there it wouldn't let them. Then I discovered solution #1 :)

Hope this helps.