Edward Ruggeri wrote:
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Stephen <stephe...@rogers.com> wrote:
Edward Ruggeri wrote:
(Of course, my system hostname (in /etc/hostname) is not fully qualified.)
Your hostname, should have an entry in /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 hostname
Then Apache is happy and you are fine.
Thanks, but, it isn't happy until you fully qualify the domain name,
for instance, in /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 hostname.local hostname.
(Oddly, it doesn't insist on a FQDN if you specify ServerName)
In fact, I'm not so much worried about why Apache might want a FQDN
(to generate redirects, etc). What I'm worried about is the statement
that Apache is going to get the IP address associated with the FQDN
(either from lookup in /etc/hosts or through DNS*). What could that
possibly be used for? Is that really what Apache does?
-- Ned Ruggeri
*Not reverse DNS, as I mistakenly wrote!
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Apache (linux/windows) will check the 'hosts' file first and then do DNS
lookups when no matches are found. I don't understand why your not
worried about why it needs it but you are worried about how it gets it.
The main server needs a name just like the vhosts, for the very reasons
you yourself gave.
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Norman Registered Linux user #461062 -Have you been to www.apache.org yet?-
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