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Restarting Apache Server - Ubuntu

Posted February 11, 2015 75.7k views

I tried to restart

It says “Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name. Using 127.0.0.1. Set the ‘Servername’ directive globally to suppress this message ”.

I haven’t pointed any domain to my IP yet. I am trying to restart apache is because of minor changes in php.ini file.

How can I restart apache2 successfully ? or How to make php.ini changes to work.

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sierracircle February 11, 2015

To fix that problem, you need to create an httpd.conf file.

From the terminal:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
the file will be blank…add the following line:

ServerName localhost

Save the file and exit nano.(I think it is crtrl X in nano)

Finally restart the server.:
sudo service apache2 restart

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owenhoskins September 26, 2015

Just had the same issue, resolved it by following sierracircle’s instructions except that I edited this file:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

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rukshanarosha November 9, 2020

when i run sudo service apache2 restart i got below erroe

Job for apache2.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See “systemctl status apache2.service” and “journalctl -xe” for details.

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206dwm July 26, 2015

Hmm, that did not work for me. I tried localhost, the IP address of my server, and the domain for that server. No luck.

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206dwm July 26, 2015

I’m wondering if sierracircle isn’t being specif enough about the apache directive ServerName. Does it need to be in some sort of xml block or something?

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ssgcurrency July 12, 2016

how to restart server?

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yeslucky5 February 8, 2018

sudo service apache2 restart

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