HowTO: ServerName globally

[BBuchanan1013]

For those that have ubuntu + apache and get the wonderful warning:

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AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using (your hostname). Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message

What I did was to create a global file to suppress it instead of trying to determine the actual file that directive was in.

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nano /etc/apache2/conf.d/fqdn.conf

Set the servername to yours replacing localhost

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ServerName localhost

Ctrl + x
y
enter
restart apache

[joem]

For those that have ubuntu + apache and get the wonderful warning:

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AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using (your hostname). Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message

What I did was to create a global file to suppress it instead of trying to determine the actual file that directive was in.

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nano /etc/apache2/conf.d/fqdn.conf

Set the servername to yours replacing localhost

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ServerName localhost

Ctrl + x
y
enter
restart apache

This issue also happens in centos7 the location is different though /etc/httpd/conf.d/fqdn.conf. @BBuchanan1013 did you make a pull request for this?

Centos7

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echo "ServerName localhost" >> /etc/httpd/conf.d/fqdn.conf

[BBuchanan1013]

For those that have ubuntu + apache and get the wonderful warning:

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AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using (your hostname). Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message

What I did was to create a global file to suppress it instead of trying to determine the actual file that directive was in.

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nano /etc/apache2/conf.d/fqdn.conf

Set the servername to yours replacing localhost

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ServerName localhost

Ctrl + x
y
enter
restart apache

This issue also happens in centos7 the location is different though /etc/httpd/conf.d/fqdn.conf. @BBuchanan1013 did you make a pull request for this?

Centos7

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echo "ServerName localhost" >> /etc/httpd/conf.d/fqdn.conf

Your right, I see instead of apache2;

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/etc/httpd/conf.d/

otherwise the rest should work. Any .conf in the conf.d folder will be picked up by apache when it starts.

[usr999]

In CentOS7 you can use hostnamectl