--- Rick Hogg <eulipion2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > Newbie question here, but whenever I try to run > Apache > in Xubuntu Linux, using the command "sudo > /etc/init.d/apache2 start" I get the following > error: > > apache2: Could not determine the server's fully > qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for > ServerName > (13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to > address [::]:80 > no listening sockets available, shutting down > Unable to open logs > > The Xubuntu forum says to use > "nano /etc/hostname" then "hostname --file > /etc/hostname" but that breaks my installation with > this error: > "sudo: unable to lookup rick-desktop.local via > gethostbyname()" and the name rick-desktop.local is a registered domain name in the dns system? if not, edit the httpd.conf and specify a FQDN for apache to work with, or specify it's only available on a specifc ip address, such as loopback of 127.0.0.1 instead of whichever ip address the network interface has. > How can I get Apache up and running? > > Thanks in advance! > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx