How To Fix: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name

Loging to your Redhat server with the SSH account that was provided by our staff. Make sure you are logged in as root. If you don't have your password or forgot, please contact our support team. otherwise, execute these commands if you have your root password:


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HOST = Your host name
DOMAIN = Your Domain Name

Now execute the next command in the shell:

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Now that your server has a hostname and a domain name, restart your server with the following command:

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After you have restarted your server, you shouldn't see the error.

does this work on other linux distributions like Mandrake Mandriva Red Hat Fedora Core SuSE Linux Debian Woody Sarge Ubuntu Hoary Hedgehog Breezy Badger Dapper DrakeEdgy Eft CentOS

I am also facing the same prob but the above reply dint worked for me plz can anyone help me

hey Nithin, send this command:

cat /etc/hostname
if you don't have a hostname, you need to give your server a good hostname and a domain name. for example: hostname.domainname.com
make sure you only have one entry, its possible that you have a corupted hostname file, so i would clear it all and run the command on this post
MAKE SURE TO RESTART YOUR SERVER

you have to edit the /etc/apache2/apache2.conf and, at the end of the file, add:

# added servername to avoid the could not determine fqdn error
servername myserver

place your server name in place of myserver.

it worked for me.

thanks.

that worked great.

it's a verry good
it work !!!
thanks

thanks kike, it worked for me too

also check this file:

/etc/hosts

make sure it matches your hostname

i was getting this error

starting httpd: httpd: apr_sockaddr_info_get() failed for hostname.domain

httpd: could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for servername

http://tgrove.com/2007/12/02/httpd-apr_sockaddr_info_get-failed-for-hostname/

ah it was /etc/hosts.
thanks

thanks, it works

/etc/apache2/apache2.conf and, at the end of the file, add:

# added servername to avoid the could not determine fqdn error
servername myserver

place your server name in place of myserver.

it worked for me.


and for me, clean shutdown & startup.

thanks
jim

my god!! it worked for me.
thanks

set "servername xxx" in your apache configures.
in the command line "hostname xxx.domainname "
restart apache

looks like that fixed worked for all of you, however just encountered an issue with some sites being hosted as virtual machines with esx.

the website was hosted on a load balancer so if mahcine fails 2 would take over. for some reason apache had no route to the servername. it had to start at the vm, go through the host, and then out to the network.

did not have enough time to dig into the issue, however a soft reboot fixed it right up.

just add or change the servername option in your apache config file. on my debian/apache2 system the file i had to modify is /etc/apache2/apache2.conf. i added this line:

servername thugone

and then restarted apache, which started without the error.

if that doesn’t work, make sure that whatever you defined as the servername is specified in your /etc/hosts file:

127.0.0.1 thugone localhost

look this...
arthurfurlan.org/blog/2007/10/08/co

espectacular, funciono bien en mi red hat 9.

edita el archivo /etc/hosts (fedora core) y reemplaza "localhost.localdomain" por el nombre de tu máquina "nombre.dominio "

just set "servername yourservername" in httpd.conf

example: "servername localhost"

edit the httpd.conf (usually found at /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf) and change the servername entry to the name of hostname of your system. you can find the hostname by issuing the hostname command from a terminal session.
also check to see that you have a localhost entry in your hosts file (/etc/hosts).

stfw or from root type "hostname localhost", if you own a domain then "hostname mydomain "

stfw or from root type "hostname localhost", if you own a domain then "hostname mydomain "

i also was getting this could not reliably determine the servers fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for servername

hello ! to fix this problem edit /etc/hosts and add next line

::1 localhost localhost.my.domain your domain
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.my.domain your domain

hello, you can fix that by adding nameserver "hostname" in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
hostname is the name of your machine.

sorry guys it's servername "hostname" not nameserver "hostname". i had the same problem and after adding that line in the end of the file i don't receive that message when i reload or restart apache2. good luck

good! that works for me. thanks!!!

i had a similar problem i had originally setup apache with php 5.3.0 and later had gone on to change the php version to php 5.2.10. after the transition i could not restart the server, even after correctly specifying the php-config path and other intricacies. i finally got apache to restart by just renaming the php 5.3.0 folder to something else :)

Excellent! this works great on fedora 12!

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