Re: Cannot access "localhost"

[Ben Schonle <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

thx @Joshua for the quick answer.

In fact the error msg about the qualified domain contained 127.0.1.1 and 
not 127.0.0.1

///
Setting up apache2-mpm-worker (2.2.4-3ubuntu0.1) ...
* Starting web server 
apache2                                                                                             
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified 
domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
///

Following Joshuas advice I checked the httpd.conf and also the ports.conf.

The httpd.conf is empty - about this I had researched already and read 
that it is supposed to be empty due to the new apache2.conf file??? The 
ports.conf contains:

//////////
Listen 80

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
   Listen 443
</IfModule>
//////////

Any furthe advice?

Here also the data from the /etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 ben-desktop


cheers,
Ben



Joshua Slive wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Ben Schonle <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   
> >  - Installed apache2 via synaptic
> >     
>
> Yah, well, who knows what the heck you get with that. You may be
> better off on an Ubuntu forum where they have some idea how they have
> configured apache.
>
>   
> >  - while installing apache 2 an error msg about a qualified domain name
> >  appeared:
> >
> >  ///
> >  Starting web server apache2
> >  apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified
> >  domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
> >     
>
> I hope that is a type for 127.0.0.1, since otherwise things are really
> confused here.
>
>   
> >  After some research I figured out that I had to add *ServerName
> >  "localhost"* to the apache2.conf - I restarted and restarting apache2
> >  made the error about qualified domain name vanish.
> >     
>
> No, you really need a fully-qualified hostname. See:
> http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/CouldNotDetermineServerName
>
>   
> >  When writing now: "localhost" or "127.0.0.1" as the URL, it didn't show
> >  the message "It works".
> >     
>
>   
> >  Here also the data from the /etc/hosts:
> >  127.0.0.1 localhost
> >  127.0.1.1 ben-desktop
> >     
>
> Hmmm... Maybe the 127.0.1.1 thing wasn't a typo. This may be some
> Ubuntu-specific setup. But it is unclear what address the loop-back
> interface is living on for your system.
>
> You should start by looking in your httpd.conf and other Include'd
> config files for Listen directives. These directives tell apache
> exactly what IP addresses and ports it is expected to answer on.
>
> Joshua.
>
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