Apache server is not starting

Question

Last 4 months I have been running Apache server fine on my machine. All of a sudden Today I am getting httpd.exe: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name error. When I do port check this is what I see for port 8080 Tomcat (HTTP) 8080 free

This is how I set http.conf 4 months back . Listen 127.0.0.1:8080

Which worked fine till yesterday.

I have been using the same port for last 4 months. I tried to change to port 8888 or 3128 in httpd.conf. Nothing works. same error. I have disabled windows firewall. I am on windows vista machine. I have tried all the solution posted for this problem. Nothing worked.

Answer 1

That is not so much an error as a warning. What is the fqdn (fully qualified domain name) for the ip address you are using? What is it set to in the hosts file, or DNS or DHCP? Is ServerName set in httpd.conf? (Of course, 127.0.0.1 is a bit of a special case.)

So my guess is your server is actually starting and running (albeit without knowing its fqdn); if not, the problem may lie elsewhere.