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jackrabbit123 · n00b Joined: 09 Mar 2003 Posts: 25 Location: Ft. Sill, OK

When I installed apache2 on my system I recieved an error that said it couldn't find my hostname and then the server would never stay running. I edited the config file to specify a hostname of 'jackrabbit' as the hostname and it stopped complaining, however it still doesn't stay running. What do I need to do to get this working. It's quite frustrating not having a webserver.
Looking in the errorlog it says:
[Wed Sep 03 00:13:47 2003] [alert] (EAI 2)Name or service not known: mod_unique_id: unable to find IPv4 address of "jackrabbit"
Configuration Failed
While I'm at it I might as well ask for help with my proftpd server. It runs but the server refuses to accept connections. In /etc/xinet.d/proftpd I have:
service ftp
{
flags = REUSE
socket_type = stream
instances = 30
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/proftpd
log_on_success = HOST PID
log_on_failure = HOST RECORD
disable = no
}

THanks for any help

Ox- · Guru Joined: 19 Jun 2003 Posts: 305

For apache2, try putting your hostname in /etc/hostname and then add an entry for it in /etc/hosts.

For example:

jackrabbit123 · n00b Joined: 09 Mar 2003 Posts: 25 Location: Ft. Sill, OK

that worked, I had an old version of /etc/hosts in there that wasn't appropriate once I moved. thanks