Linux – httpd: Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName

Have you tried putting resolv.conf inside chroot? Such as:

mkdir -p /var/www/etc/ && cp -p /etc/resolv.conf /var/www/etc/

You may also wish to do the same for /etc/localtime if you find your web server time is off from your time zone.

Note:

• do not use a sym link because it won't work through chroot
• do not use a hard link because modifying file in chroot would modify file in /etc!

This error is because you are not using a FQDN. It should not affect the operation of the webserver.

To get rid of the message on startup you'd need to configure your hosts file with the correct domain and IP address. Your httpd.conf should also use the same name (where you have localhost specified).

As long as your server is starting and you don't plan on assigning a domain to your webserver, this error can be ignored.

Example virtual host with FQDN:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.domain.net
ServerAlias domain.net *.domain.net
ServerAdmin administrator@domain.net
DocumentRoot "/home/domain/htdocs"
<Directory "/home/domain/htdocs">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
</Directory>
CustomLog "/home/domain/logs/access-www.log" common
ErrorLog "/home/domain/logs/error-www.log"

        <IfModule mpm_peruser_module>
          ServerEnvironment apache apache
        </IfModule>
</VirtualHost>

Example hosts file:

127.0.0.1       localhost       localhost.localdomain gentoo1
x.x.x.x         gentoo1.domain.net