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

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

I am getting this error everytime I try to restart my apache server. i have a dedicated server for my wallpaper website and im able to login to my fedora/redhat server through my ssh shell, but i get this when i try to restart my server for some reason i can't figure and my wallpaper website is down. this is what i get when i execute the commnad:

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

how can i fix this?

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#1

Rajesh:

6 seconds ago

#182262

Rajesh Thu May 03, 2012 8:17 pm

use this in UR httpd.conf file ServerName 127.0.0.1

#2

saly:

3 months ago

#173625

saly Tue Jan 10, 2012 8:21 pm

Pls can you list what command should be in hosts file I have trixbox with cent5.5 operating system

#3

winzter143:

6 months ago

#167662

winzter143 Mon Oct 03, 2011 7:54 pm

Whats wrong ip? the loppback ip(127.0.0.1)?

#4

casi:

11 months ago

#156596

casi Mon May 09, 2011 6:39 am

you shouldn't put any name that you want, depending on your DNS settings, it will not route traffic correctly.

#5

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apple23:

11 months ago

#156589

apple23 Mon May 09, 2011 2:21 am

Hello, I have a question, Do I have to put my hostname in ServerName or I can put any name that I want?

#6

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rassloff:

1 year ago

#155701

rassloff Wed Apr 20, 2011 3:36 am

127.0.0.1 localhost
123.123.123.123 hostname.domain.de hostname

#7

ray:

1 year ago

#151487

ray Thu Jan 27, 2011 9:00 am

thanks. cool!

#8

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Phil:

1 year ago

#149807

Phil Sat Dec 25, 2010 10:41 am

The fix is to edit the conf file and add in the ServerName setting (as the error message requests). In other words,

sudo vi /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

by adding the following string:,

# ServerName is to be specified to avoid warning during reload
ServerName MYSERVER

#9

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Miture:

1 year ago

#143634

Miture Sat Sep 04, 2010 9:46 pm

I had the wrong IP address in my /etc/hosts file, removing that fixed it for me.

#10

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sekhar:

1 year ago

#142070

sekhar Sun Aug 15, 2010 11:59 pm

just go to httpd.conf file

open it and add a new line i.e.

servername your-server-name

save it and restart the httpd service

#11

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Vlad:

1 year ago

#140917

Vlad Tue Aug 03, 2010 8:39 am

add ServerName YOURSERVERNAME to httpd.conf

add 127.0.0.1 YOURSERVERNAME SHORTNAME to /etc/hosts

restart apache

#12

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NISHANT:

1 year ago

#140365

NISHANT Tue Jul 27, 2010 10:35 pm

Hi
uncoment or add following line in httpd.conf

ServerName example dot com :80

#13

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James:

1 year ago

#139675

James Wed Jul 21, 2010 6:31 am

In your /etc/hosts file make sure the fully qualified domain name is listed first. i.e.:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

NOT

127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain

#14

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Kiran:

2 years ago

#131063

Kiran Fri Apr 02, 2010 4:06 am

Hi

Please check whether you have the network part configure perfectly in /etc/hosts, /etc/sysconfig/network . You should provided your ip address hostname.domainname hostname in /etc/hosts.

Kiran

#15

rahma:

2 years ago

#129169

rahma Tue Mar 02, 2010 1:06 am

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

#16

Mike:

2 years ago

#126335

Mike Wed Jan 20, 2010 11:18 am

Excellent! this works great on fedora 12!

#17

Abbas:

2 years ago

#114583

Abbas Thu Sep 03, 2009 12:34 am

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 :)

#18

bobkins:

2 years ago

#107617

bobkins Sat Jun 27, 2009 11:10 pm

good! that works for me. thanks!!!

#19

Marouane:

3 years ago

#100597

Marouane Fri Apr 17, 2009 6:25 am

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

#20

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Marouane:

3 years ago

#100596

Marouane Fri Apr 17, 2009 6:19 am

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

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