[SOLVED] apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName on Xubuntu

Symptom

You get this error message when starting apache:

* Starting web server apache2
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName

Fix

Open a terminal window and run:

sudo sh -c 'echo "ServerName localhost" >> /etc/apache2/conf.d/name' && sudo service apache2 restart

References

How to fix Apache – "Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName" Error on Ubuntu

Comments

  1. AnonymousNovember 1, 2012 at 6:57 PM

    thanks a lot very usefull

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  2. AnonymousNovember 25, 2012 at 12:59 PM

    http://linuxconfig.net/manual-howto/error-solution-could-not-reliably-determine-the-servers-fully-qualified-domain-name.html

    To solve this problem You need set ServerName.
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    $ vim /etc/apache2/conf.d/name

    For example set add ServerName localhost or any other name:
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    ServerName localhost

    Restart Apache 2
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    $ service apache restart

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  3. AnonymousDecember 11, 2012 at 4:00 PM

    thanks!!!

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  4. UnknownDecember 11, 2012 at 9:26 PM

    Doesn't work for me. And I'm even using Xubuntu (12.10) not a variant. In fact, I haven't got this little trick for the last 2 months or so, on Ubuntu, Mint or CrunchBang

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    1. Wilson SantosDecember 11, 2012 at 9:50 PM

      I just tried this on Xubuntu 12.10 and it worked:

      sudo sh -c 'echo "ServerName localhost" >> /etc/apache2/conf.d/name' && sudo service apache2 restart

      You could try this as well.

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    2. AnonymousDecember 17, 2012 at 11:59 PM

      awesome ! this works with my xubuntu THANK YOU !

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    3. Wilson SantosDecember 18, 2012 at 12:03 AM

      @Anonymous
      You're welcome!

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  5. AnonymousDecember 18, 2012 at 12:55 AM

    "sudo sh -c 'echo "ServerName localhost" >> /etc/apache2/conf.d/name' && sudo service apache2 restart"

    Tried all the trick on Linux Mint 13 64bit,none work. Please help.
    And what does the name in '/conf.d/name' mean, when I execute the command with this,I get an error that the directory doesn't exist.

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    1. Wilson SantosDecember 18, 2012 at 6:26 AM

      I tried on Linux Mint 14 and it worked.
      conf.d holds Apache's configuration files, there should a line inside you httpd.conf including it (Include conf.d/).

      Did you install Apache from the repositories? Please check that you typed it right.

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  6. AnonymousDecember 27, 2012 at 6:38 PM

    Thanks man! Simple and Work!

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  7. A.JDecember 29, 2012 at 5:12 PM

    Thank you, work for me in Ubuntu 12.10, i used to edit httpd.conf manually but somehow manually editing didn't work last time!!!! .. thanks again

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  8. meenakshi0102December 31, 2012 at 3:44 AM

    Thanks for the suggestion. it worked. Can you also explain what was the problem and explain the command which fixes it?

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    1. Wilson SantosJanuary 3, 2013 at 12:29 AM

      The error message says that ServerName is not set, so what the command does is to append the line "ServerName localhost" to the file /etc/apache2/conf.d/name.

      The echo command writes text to standard output. This text is appended using the bash redirection (>>).

      After the configuration is updated the Apache server is restarted using the "service" command.

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  9. James WilksJanuary 1, 2013 at 8:05 PM

    thanks ! work for me in Ubuntu 12.10

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  10. AnonymousJanuary 13, 2013 at 12:11 PM

    Thanks a bunch. Worked for me.

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  11. ZaneFebruary 25, 2013 at 10:34 PM

    You are a *. Worked like a charm

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  12. PostieMarch 9, 2013 at 11:49 PM

    Thanks, it worked like...well it worked :)

    Mmm saturday night and I'm configuring a web server. We all have our priorities

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  13. AnonymousMarch 10, 2013 at 6:09 AM

    I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and when i use the above given command the message on terminal is '* Restarting web server apache2' but when i check the browser for http://localhost:8080 i dont get the Apache server page. Please guide

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    1. Wilson SantosMarch 10, 2013 at 4:34 PM

      Apache uses port 80, so try http://localhost
      You can also configure Apache to make it listen to other ports.

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  14. Wilson SantosMarch 21, 2013 at 2:37 PM

    You're welcome!

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  15. johnMarch 24, 2013 at 5:14 PM

    I started getting thisk error after moving my Document Root from /var/www/ to my Dropbox folder. Here is my new entry in /etc/apache2/sites-available folder. File name is mysite:
    ------------------
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

    DocumentRoot /var/www

    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None


    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all


    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/

    AllowOverride None
    Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all


    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/mysite_error.log

    # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
    # alert, emerg.
    LogLevel warn

    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
    ------------------

    I have given 777 permission to the Dropbox tree ~/Dropbox/mysite/

    I put the entry ServerName localhost in a new /etc/apache2/name file and that is the only entry in that file.

    I've restarted the server countless times. I'm confused by all the misinformation on the web where Xubuntu installations of Apache2 are confused with other installations of Apache on .rpm servers. Where should I go next?

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  16. johnMarch 24, 2013 at 5:26 PM

    Nevermind. Saw my error in my mysite file. Corrected that and it is working find now, apparently.
    Sorry for the bother.

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  17. UnknownApril 10, 2013 at 1:10 PM

    Worked on a Raspberry Pi "wheezy"......thank you!

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  18. RahulApril 14, 2013 at 9:58 AM

    I messed up with my apache2.conf,ports.conf,000-default files. And,then I reset them back (atleast that is what I thought). It led to the problem refereed in the post,which I fixed using your solution.I had edited /var/www/index.html before messing up with those files and customized it to my needs. Now ,when I type in http://localhost/ ,I get the default "It works" page. I couldn't find where this page is ,and I couldn't understand why my customized index.html is not being displayed.(although the customized index.html still lives in the /var/www/ directory ) All the other pages work fine. Any help?

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    1. Wilson SantosApril 14, 2013 at 3:34 PM

      Please, open the file: /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

      Then check the value of the "DocumentRoot" directive; it should be "var/www".

      After changing the value restart apache: sudo service apache2 restart

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  19. Andi RiantoApril 24, 2013 at 3:58 AM

    thanks man..

    it's worked like charm :)

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  20. Kelam Praveen KumarMay 17, 2013 at 9:59 AM

    Hi, I've a Ubuntu 11.10 version running on my personal computer. I had entered the above mentioned command on a "Terminal" as you instructed on this site but there's no luck I'm still running the errors with the Apache2 on my computer. Kindly help me out in fixing this error ASAP.

    sudo sh -c 'echo "ServerName localhost" >> /etc/apache2/conf.d/name' && sudo service apache2 restart


    Regards,
    Kelam Praveen Kumar

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    1. Wilson SantosMay 17, 2013 at 10:11 AM

      Could you try the solution below?

      sudo sh -c 'echo "ServerName localhost" >> /etc/apache2/httpd.conf' && sudo service apache2 restart

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    2. Kelam Praveen KumarMay 17, 2013 at 10:27 AM

      No, it didn't worked and I ended up with the new error right now.....


      Error message:

      sh: cannot create /etc/apache2/httpd.conf: Directory nonexistent

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    3. Kelam Praveen KumarMay 17, 2013 at 12:43 PM

      Hi, I had entered the command provided by you and after I entered the command I'm getting a new error message.

      Error message:

      * Restarting web server apache2
      Action 'start' failed.
      The Apache error log may have more information.


      I had opened the error logs but I couldn't understand as I'm a beginner and I had posted it below....



      Error.log.2.gz


      [Wed Mar 06 20:28:28 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Ubuntu) mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1 configured -- resuming normal operations

      [Thu Mar 07 00:22:22 2013] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down

      [Thu Mar 07 18:20:21 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Ubuntu) mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1 configured -- resuming normal operations

      [Thu Mar 07 20:03:26 2013] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down

      [Fri Mar 08 23:07:52 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Ubuntu) mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1 configured -- resuming normal operations

      [Fri Mar 08 23:32:01 2013] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down

      [Fri Mar 08 23:32:42 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Ubuntu) mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1 configured -- resuming normal operations

      [Sat Mar 09 00:26:28 2013] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down

      [Sun Mar 10 10:15:38 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Ubuntu) mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1 configured -- resuming normal operations

      [Sun Mar 10 10:18:02 2013] [notice] SIGUSR1 received. Doing graceful restart

      apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName



      erro.log.3.gz

      [Tue Jan 31 08:52:09 2012] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Ubuntu) configured -- resuming normal operations

      [Tue Jan 31 09:59:58 2012] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down

      [Thu Feb 02 19:07:51 2012] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Ubuntu) mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1 configured -- resuming normal operations

      [Thu Feb 02 23:07:33 2012] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down

      [Fri Feb 03 12:33:14 2012] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Ubuntu) mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1 configured -- resuming normal operations

      [Fri Feb 03 13:51:25 2012] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down

      [Wed Mar 06 20:06:20 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Ubuntu) mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1 configured -- resuming normal operations

      [Wed Mar 06 20:28:28 2013] [notice] SIGUSR1 received. Doing graceful restart

      apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName

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  21. Kelam Praveen KumarMay 17, 2013 at 10:18 AM

    Hi, I've a Ubuntu 11.10 version running on my private computer. I had installed the Apache2 recently on my computer and I ended with the error while restarting the Apache2. I had entered the command provided by you on this site but nothing changed I'm still running the error while restarting the Apache2.....


    Error message:

    * Restarting web server apache2
    Action 'start' failed.
    The Apache error log may have more information..


    Kindly help me in fixing this error.....

    Thanks in advance..

    -Kelam Praveen Kumar-

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    1. Wilson SantosMay 17, 2013 at 10:27 AM

      That error message isn't related with the problem exposed in this post. Please check the Apache error log for more information (/var/log/apache2/error.log)

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    2. Kelam Praveen KumarMay 17, 2013 at 11:00 AM

      Sorry, I had received the same error at the first place which is exposed in the post and later I ended up with the following error.

      Error message:

      * Restarting web server apache2
      Action 'start' failed.
      The Apache error log may have more information..



      As you instructed, I had checked the error log and I've entered it below....


      Error.log.2.gz



      [Wed Mar 06 20:28:28 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Ubuntu) mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1 configured -- resuming normal operations

      [Thu Mar 07 00:22:22 2013] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down

      [Thu Mar 07 18:20:21 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Ubuntu) mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1 configured -- resuming normal operations

      [Thu Mar 07 20:03:26 2013] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down

      [Fri Mar 08 23:07:52 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Ubuntu) mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1 configured -- resuming normal operations

      [Fri Mar 08 23:32:01 2013] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down

      [Fri Mar 08 23:32:42 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Ubuntu) mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1 configured -- resuming normal operations

      [Sat Mar 09 00:26:28 2013] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down

      [Sun Mar 10 10:15:38 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Ubuntu) mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1 configured -- resuming normal operations

      [Sun Mar 10 10:18:02 2013] [notice] SIGUSR1 received. Doing graceful restart

      apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName




      erro.log.3.gz


      [Tue Jan 31 08:52:09 2012] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Ubuntu) configured -- resuming normal operations

      [Tue Jan 31 09:59:58 2012] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down

      [Thu Feb 02 19:07:51 2012] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Ubuntu) mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1 configured -- resuming normal operations

      [Thu Feb 02 23:07:33 2012] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down

      [Fri Feb 03 12:33:14 2012] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Ubuntu) mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1 configured -- resuming normal operations

      [Fri Feb 03 13:51:25 2012] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down

      [Wed Mar 06 20:06:20 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Ubuntu) mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1 configured -- resuming normal operations

      [Wed Mar 06 20:28:28 2013] [notice] SIGUSR1 received. Doing graceful restart

      apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName

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    3. Wilson SantosMay 18, 2013 at 10:35 AM

      It seams that Apache isn't properly installed...

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  22. UnknownJune 19, 2013 at 5:07 AM

    iloveu.

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  23. GademJune 29, 2013 at 8:25 PM

    Thanks!

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  24. AnonymousJuly 20, 2013 at 12:37 PM

    Thanks a lot it works!!!

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  25. AnonymousAugust 21, 2013 at 6:23 PM

    Working in Ubuntu 13.04. Thank you very much from Mexico.

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  26. FUKOAugust 29, 2013 at 7:49 PM

    Thanks.
    I think there's possibility to change localhost for real host name.

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  27. Keane IngramSeptember 27, 2013 at 8:16 AM

    Thanks for this, much appreciated!

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  28. AnonymousJanuary 20, 2014 at 10:27 PM

    Thank you !!! From Paris :D

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  29. AnonymousJuly 27, 2014 at 12:23 AM

    i have some probleme but on kali linux
    Starting web server: apache2apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName

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  30. UnknownAugust 1, 2014 at 2:03 PM

    Thanks a lot. it's working good. but i got another error. i posted in below

    please help

    $ sudo sh -c 'echo "ServerName localhost" >> /etc/apache2/conf.d/name' && sudo service apache2 restart

    * Restarting web server apache2 (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
    no listening sockets available, shutting down
    Unable to open logs
    Action 'start' failed.
    The Apache error log may have more information. [fail]

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    1. Wilson SantosAugust 1, 2014 at 2:06 PM

      It seems that you have another service using the HTTP port (80).

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