Paul Russell wrote:

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'Starting httpd: httpd: Cannot determine local host name. Use the ServerName directive to set it manually' then I get a [ FAILED ] message in a nice pretty red colour. Everything seems ok though but it's annoying me so...

Yep - edit /etc/apache/httpd.conf (assuming redhat follow FHS), and add the following:

ServerName your.fully.qualified.domain

Then you should find you can restart apache and be away.

Hi, on Redhat 5.1 it is /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

HTH, Dermot

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Paul: wrote

Yep - edit /etc/apache/httpd.conf (assuming redhat follow FHS), and add the following:

ServerName your.fully.qualified.domain

Then you should find you can restart apache and be away.

Works a treat thanks.

Cheers, BJ

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