Here's a shot in the dark. The file /etc/hosts most probably has a line containing host-xx-xxx-xx-xxx, associating the host name with an IP address, looking somewhat like this:
10.11.12.14 host-xx-xxx-xx-xxx Edit that line and add laptop: 10.11.12.14 host-xx-xxx-xx-xxx laptop I think that should do the trick. In order to permanently change the hostname, I believe you would need to modify the file /etc/hostname and/or /etc/nodename. You would need root privileges for that. -ascs ________________________________ De : Hans Tovetjärn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : mardi 18 décembre 2007 00:43 À : users@httpd.apache.org Objet : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Custom hostname and Apache 2.2.6 Hello! I'm a bit new to this, but here goes. My computer is a MacBook Pro with Mac OS X 10.4.11, I am not using the bundled Apach 1.3 server, it has not been activated prior to this. I installed Apache 2.2.6 (as well as PHP and MySQL...) through MacPorts (DarwinPorts) and it has been working flawlessly. It is when I attempt the following I can't make it work. I have a fancy prompt in Terminal, which displays "[EMAIL PROTECTED]>", however, I would like the hostname to be the computer name, i.e. I want it to look like "[EMAIL PROTECTED]>", because the current hostname is "host-xx-xxx-xx-xxx" which can clutter up the screen a bit too much for me. Now this I solved by typing... > sudo hostname laptop ...but after that, I can't seem to start Apache. If I change it back to "host-xx-xxx-xx-xxx", all is well. But I want the short name, so I try again. The error message I get is as follows: httpd: apr_sockaddr_info_get() failed for laptop httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName This is supposedly merely a warning according to http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/CouldNotDetermineServerName but if I open my browser and go to 127.0.0.1 it can't find the server. Nor can I see it listed if I do a > ps aux | grep httpd So it would seem it never started at all. I then tried setting my hostname in httpd.conf to the following and restarting Apache 2, without success: laptop 127.0.0.1 host-xx-xxx-xx-xxx (my old hostname) 127.0.0.1:80 host-xx-xxx-xx-xxx:80 host-xx-xxx-xx-xxx.serva.net (ISP) None of them worked, I tried changing the listen directive as well to my IP, but that wouldn't help me either. Is it possible to use a custom hostname and have Apache run simultaneously? Thanks in advance. Regards, Hans --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
