apache2 server ignores the domain name

[atreyu]

did you remove localhost from /etc/hosts? i think it wants to be there, e.g.:

127.0.0.1 localhost targetcraft

also, is apache actually starting up, despite that error?

another question: are your virual hosts working properly?

[black_penguin]

Apache2 starts normally, but then I could access the server only using its IP-address (not a domain name).
Yes, virtual hosts are working properly.

[elija]

Is the domain entered into the hosts file so the server knows it should serve it?

[atreyu]

Apache2 starts normally, but then I could access the server only using its IP-address (not a domain name).
Yes, virtual hosts are working properly.

are you accessing the server from a browser on the same machine, or are you accessing it from another (client) machine?

in any case, you need to confirm that you can resolve the domain name to the ip address of the web server. for arguments sake, let's say your domain name is www.example.com and your web server machine's ip address is 192.168.1.2. So on your client machine, in /etc/hosts (assuming this is a Linux machine) file, you should have:

192.168.1.2        www.example.com

you must also be able to resolve this ip address on the server itself, as elija mentioned. so on the server, in /etc/hosts, you could do something like:

127.0.0.1    localhost www.example.com

You could also do this resolving using DNS, but start with using /etc/hosts - it is simpler.


btw, how do you know that virtual hosts are working properly if you can only access the webserver via ip address? that doesn't follow.

[black_penguin]

I forgot to tell you that on IP-address there is a panel, while on targetcraft.ru I want to place a site.

But I cannot do it, because of this error:

Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 178.63.95.207 for ServerName

Also, on IP-address it successfully access the panel, but cannot access to targetcraft-ru .

How to make it so on targetcraft-ru there is a site, and on targetcraft-ru/panel - a panel?

Or just do it so on targetcraft-ru there is a site, while a panel is on a different address,
how I wanted to do it earlier?

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[atreyu]

I forgot to tell you that on IP-address there is a panel, while on targetcraft.ru I want to place a site.

But I cannot do it, because of this error:

Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 178.63.95.207 for ServerName

Try adding this to your httpd.conf file:

ServerName localhost

then restart Apache.

Also:
1) what is your distro (you may have mentioned it before...)

2) what is the full path to the httpd.conf file that you are editing?

3) are you using any other httpd *.conf files?

4) what is this talk of "panel"? i don't get that part.

[black_penguin]

Try adding this to your httpd.conf file:

ServerName localhost

then restart Apache.

Also:
1) what is your distro (you may have mentioned it before...)

2) what is the full path to the httpd.conf file that you are editing?

3) are you using any other httpd *.conf files?

4) what is this talk of "panel"? i don't get that part.

Here are the answers:

1) My distro is: Debian 6.0

2) The path to this file is: /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

3) No, there are not any other httpd *.conf files.

4) The website consists of two parts, one of them is the panel.

[elija]

In Debian, the default config file is /etc/apache2/apache2.conf, another thing to try (assuming all else is set up correctly) is disable the default vhost by running the command

a2dissite default

as root and restarting the Apache service.

[mactruck]

I am having the same issues on an ubuntu server, should I try and follow these steps or is this specific to Debian? should I open my own request? Try what is stated here and if I have problems open my own request? by no means do I want to hijack this thread in any way. I mean no disrespect to anyone.

[mizzle]

Mactruck: Open a new thread. This one is full of too much fail.