I keep getting this warning when I (re)start Apache.
* Restarting web server apache2
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
... waiting apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
[ OK ]
This is the content of my etc/hosts
file:
#127.0.0.1 hpdtp-ubuntu910
#testproject.localhost localhost.localdomain localhost
#127.0.1.1 hpdtp-ubuntu910
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 testproject.localhost
127.0.1.1 hpdtp-ubuntu910
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
This is the content of my /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default
file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName testproject.localhost
DocumentRoot "/home/morpheous/work/websites/testproject/web"
DirectoryIndex index.php
<Directory "/home/morpheous/work/websites/testproject/web">
AllowOverride All
Allow from All
</Directory>
Alias /sf /lib/vendor/symfony/symfony-1.3.2/data/web/sf
<Directory "/lib/vendor/symfony/symfony-1.3.2/data/web/sf">
AllowOverride All
Allow from All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
When I go to http://testproject.localhost
, I get a blank page.
Can anyone spot what I am doing wrong?
Best Answer
By default Ubuntu doesn't specify a ServerName in the Apache configuration, because it doesn't know what the name of your server is. It tries a reverse lookup on your IP address, which returns nothing, so it just has to use the IP address as the ServerName.
To fix it, either add a ServerName directive outside of any virtual host - e.g. in
/etc/apache2/httpd.conf
, or set up a reverse DNS response for your primary IP address - in this case, 127.0.1.1It's perfectly fine to ignore it also.