Question

My apache2 was working properly on ubuntu.
But now it shows following error when I restart it.

• Restarting web server apache2 apache2: Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
  apache2: Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName

I tried uninstalling and then reinstalling it..

I edit my config file and added ServerName localhost

though the error is gone but i am still unable to run the localhost on the browser

Answer 1

You need to ensure that your FQDN is set correctly.

Try the following

1. edit /etc/hostname, to e.g. localhost
2. run : hostname -F /etc/hostname
3. edit /etc/hosts accordingly
4. /etc/init.d/apache2 restart