On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Tapas Mishra <mightydre...@gmail.com> wrote: > My hostname and fqdns are different. >
Did you read the manual entry I linked you to? It was specificly chosen to illustrate why apache emits that error message, and what you can do to fix the problem: """ If no ServerName is specified, then the server attempts to deduce the hostname by performing a reverse lookup on the IP address. """ So it tries to do a PTR (reverse) lookup for your IP, 192.168.1.5, which obviously doesn't return correctly, and so apache emits the error. So to fix it, you must supply a ServerName (in the main config, not a vhost) which apache can resolve. To make sure apache can resolve it, simply add the hostname to /etc/hosts Eg, if your server is called 'bob', then put 'ServerName bob' in the apache config, and add a line '192.168.1.5 bob' to /etc/hosts. (Wondering why I bother.) Tom --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org