apache not starting: FreeBSd 5.4
dharam paul
#apachectl configtest
Syntax ok
httpd-error.log reports:
Mon May 1 00:48:28 2006] [alert] mod_unique_id:
unable to gethostbyname("ca...@alfa.alfanet.com")
I am not able to understand what the problem is
ServerName 127.0.0.1 (this line is uncommented)
Listen 192.168.1.14:80 (This line commented or
uncommented does not alter
the error:
Error remains :
/usr/local/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be
started
I am going to use apache for the local intranet. It
looks as if the host name "ca...@alfa.alfanet.com" has
to be changed.
Please help solve the problem
Thanks n regards
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Chad Brown
> unable to gethostbyname("ca...@alfa.alfanet.com")
is your hostname really "ca...@alfa.alfanet.com"? type "hostname" in a shell.
dharam paul
intranet. Am I wrng to give this name?
Regards
dp
--- Chad Brown <chads...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Mon May 1 00:48:28 2006] [alert] mod_unique_id:
> > unable to gethostbyname("ca...@alfa.alfanet.com")
>
> is your hostname really "ca...@alfa.alfanet.com"?
> type "hostname" in a shell.
>
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>--- Chad Brown <chads...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>>>Mon May 1 00:48:28 2006] [alert] mod_unique_id:
>>>unable to gethostbyname("ca...@alfa.alfanet.com")
>>>
>>>
>>is your hostname really "ca...@alfa.alfanet.com"?
>>type "hostname" in a shell.
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> dharam paul wrote:
>
>Yes, it is. But the machine is meant only for local
>intranet. Am I wrng to give this name?
>
>Regards
>dp
>
bothered to start searching the RFCs for you, but I fail to see how it
can be legal since it would make email address parsing pretty much
impossible; possibly URLs as well. Try cathyatalfa.alfanet.com or
cathy-at-alfa.alfanet.com, though the atalfa/at-alfa seems pretty
redundant given the rest of the domain.
--Alex
fbsd
Assigning a Host name to your FBSD system.
Your FBSD operating system has internal software applications (like
sendmail for one) that needs to know the fully qualified domain name
of the PC it's running on. You do this by adding the option
statement hostname= to /etc/rc.conf.
This is the format to use.
thisPCname.fakeDOMAINname.tld
Where thisPCname came be any name you want to identify this
particular PC on your LAN. Since the goal of this Installation Guide
is to build a FBSD gateway server, the name of this PC should be
gateway.
Where .fakeDOMAINname can be any name you want as long as it's not a
registered domain name on the public Internet (unless of course it's
registered to you). Using FBSDyourlastname is a safe fake domain
name to use here. So if your name was Tom Jones, you should use
fbsdjones.
Where .tld can be any of the standard TLD's currently in use. Such
as .com or .usa or .info or .cc, but since .com is the most commonly
used TLD, I recommend using .com.
gateway.fbsdjones.com is a very acceptable fake host name to use.
ee /etc/rc.conf
and add this option statement to the file:
hostname="gateway.fbsdjones.com"
Save the changed file and ‘reboot’ your system for your edit changes
to take effect.
When the reboot stops at the login prompt, the line displayed just
above it will now contain your host name you just added to rc.conf.
Installer Note: If you have an official registered domain name that
you want to use for your email sendmail server, then use that in the
hostname= statement. Example, if my registered domain name was
cyberman.com then hostname=’cyberman.com’ is what I would code.
What ever hostname you use, for example gateway.fbsdjones.com, in
the httpd.conf file you would use www.fbsdjones.com and you will
also have to add gateway.fbsdjones.com and fbsdjones.com to
/etc/hosts file because you have no private dns server.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freeb...@freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freeb...@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of dharam paul
robert
> Yes, it is. But the machine is meant only for local
> intranet. Am I wrng to give this name?
>
> Regards
> dp
> --- Chad Brown <chads...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Mon May 1 00:48:28 2006] [alert] mod_unique_id:
> > > unable to gethostbyname("ca...@alfa.alfanet.com")
> >
> > is your hostname really "ca...@alfa.alfanet.com"?
> > type "hostname" in a shell.
> >
>
>
>
It is not a host name, it is an e-mail address. If it is just an
internet host name, try something like cathy.alfa.local ie without the
@.
Regards
Rob
dharam paul
It seems to be a pure problem of hostname. I have now
given the hostname 'cathy.alfa.net' in my '/etc/hosts'
and '/etc/rc.conf' file. The contens os both the files
are as under:
Here 192.168.1.14 is the ip of the machine running
apache.
The output of /etc/rc.conf file is confusing me
because it lists the hostname more than once.
/etc/hosts-->
-----------
::1 localhost.alfanet.com
localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost.alfanet.com
localhost
192.168.1.14 cathy.alfa.net
----------------
/etc/rc.conf--->
------------
~
~
~
:q!
cathy@alfa# vi /etc/rc.conf
# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Thu Apr 20
00:45:45 2006
# Created: Thu Apr 20 00:45:45 2006
# Enable network daemons for user convenience.
# Please make all changes to this file, not to
/etc/defaults/rc.conf.
# This file now contains just the overrides from
/etc/defaults/rc.conf.
defaultrouter="192.168.1.1"
hostname="cathy.alfa.net"
#hostname="ca...@alfa.alfanet.com"
ifconfig_rl0="inet 192.168.1.14 netmask
255.255.255.0"
ipv6_enable="YES"
linux_enable="YES"
moused_enable="YES"
saver="blank"
#sendmail_enable="NONE"
sshd_enable="YES"
usbd_enable="YES"
#apache_enable="YES"
squid_enable="YES"
samba_enable="YES"
#dansguardian_enable="YES"
# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Thu Apr 20
01:39:35 2006
ifconfig_rl0="inet 192.168.1.14 netmask
255.255.255.0"
ipv6_enable="YES"
defaultrouter="192.168.1.1"
hostname="ca...@alfa.alfanet.com"
# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Sat Apr 22
23:00:07 2006
ifconfig_dc0="inet 192.168.1.16 netmask
255.255.255.0"
ipv6_enable="YES"
defaultrouter="192.168.1.1"
hostname="ca...@alfa.alfanet.com"
# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Tue Apr 25
17:25:23 2006
defaultrouter="192.168.1.1"
hostname="ca...@alfa.alfanet.com"
-----------
Present situation is that 'apachectl start' does not
output anything as if it had been successfully
executed. But when I check with 'apachectl status' I
get following error:
Looking up localhost
Making HTTP connection to localhost
Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host.
lynx: Can't access startfile
http://localhost/server-status
Thanks for help please.
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dharam paul
/etc/hosts
file had to be amended as under:
----------------------> 192.168.1.14 cathy.alfa.net localhost
----------------------
Thanks friends,
regards