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I'm not sure what to search for on google for this, but something strange happened when I restarted apache2. I'm using an ubuntu server, 11.04, and got this message

apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 207.223.0.140 for ServerName

A strange IP, not even close to the one I have. Could it be someone changed this? Is there a way to change it back to 127.0.0.1?

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Normaly those errors have to do with your configured ServerName and the hosts-file.

Make sure you have an entry for localhost and one for the chosen ServerName in your /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1         localhost
999.999.999.999   example.com

Make sure to set your IP instead of 999.999... and your hostname instead of example.com ;)

For further information google for "Apache2 could not reliably determine". You'll find something for sure.

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  • Well what I'm asking is why it's 207.223.0.140. Just seems like a random ip for it to set to.
    – SystemRaen
    Dec 3, 2011 at 20:14
  • OK, two things come to mind: 1 ) If your running the Server behind a router or a NAT, you could check if this is your public IP (goto formyip.com or see here for commands to do the same). 2 ) Could your ServerName or the ServerName in Combination with the search domain in /etc/resolv.conf resolve to this IP?
    – Lukas
    Dec 3, 2011 at 20:36
  • One more thing that might be interesting is how apache does the lookups to determine the IP: First it tries a DNS-Lookup on the global ServerName. If that fails it will take the systems hostname (type hostname in console) and do a lookup on that. I don't know what it does if none of those resolve correctly though. The according part of the documentation can be found here
    – Lukas
    Dec 3, 2011 at 20:56
  • It's not my public ip, but I just did a whois look up (should've done that in the first place) based on your idea and it seems to be one of my ISPs DNS servers. I think that's it then. Strange that ubuntu would pick that ip though
    – SystemRaen
    Dec 3, 2011 at 20:58
  • Also I think your latest comment answers the question, but it was the fact my /etc/hosts file wasn't correct, so I'll mark your answer correct
    – SystemRaen
    Dec 3, 2011 at 21:11

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