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Re: Apache and host name?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile)
Mon Oct 21 23:11:56 1996

Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:06:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile" <scoile@patriot.net>
To: Tracy Phillips <tphilips@cedar.netten.net>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <326C2B65.1B9C@cedar.netten.net>
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yOn Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Tracy Phillips wrote:
> As my system is starting up i get something like this:
> 
> starting httpd
> 
> cannot determine localhost name
> use ServerName to start manually
> 
> i have a static dial up ppp address and would like for other users to
> access web pages on my local machine but cannot figure out how to start
> apache for the like of me.

Suppose the name your system with the static IP address has been assigned
in someuser.someisp.net.  Add the following line to your Apache httpd.conf
file (typically in /etc/httpd/conf):

ServerName someuser.someisp.net

Then restart the server.

Check the documentation for Apache:

    http://www.apache.org/docs

-Steve Coile
 Systems Engineer, Patriot Computer Group


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