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Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name

April 29, 2013 by Eric Wilson in operations

If you are seeing the message above when starting up Apache you should be able to cure the error / warning by adding the following line to the /etc/apache2/apache2.conf file: ​

ServerName localhost

Seems like it should be there by default but ...

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April 29, 2013 /Eric Wilson
apache, configuration
operations
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