Ghost host && virtualhost not working properly

**Stoneface** · August 11th, 2010

I just setup a LAMP on my Ubuntu 10.0.4 desktop using tasksel with PMA and am working on configuring virtual hosts to more easily browse sites I will be development and or testing on this localhost.I have two problems. Every time I restart Apache or do some work on a virtualhost I get this error:

Code:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
sudo: unable to resolve host ubuntu
 * Restarting web server apache2                                                apache2: apr_sockaddr_info_get() failed for ubuntu
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName
 ... waiting apache2: apr_sockaddr_info_get() failed for ubuntu
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName

I only have a virtualhost default and wordpress. How is this error caused and how can I resolve it?
Second issue, when I go to wordpress-dev my /etc/hosts file neatly directs me to my virtualhost Wordpress residing in /var/www/wordpress, but when I click to see a comment I get a url with localhost in it:

Code:

http://localhost/wordpress/?p=1#comments

. Is this a Wordpress permalinks issue or is this a virtualhost missconfiguration?

Here is my virtualhost wordpress

Code:

<VirtualHost 127.0.1.1:80>
	ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

	DocumentRoot /var/www/wordpress/
	<Directory />
		Options FollowSymLinks
		AllowOverride None
	</Directory>
	<Directory /var/www/wordpress/>
		Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
		AllowOverride None
		Order allow,deny
		allow from all
	</Directory>

	ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
	<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
		AllowOverride None
		Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
		Order allow,deny
		Allow from all
	</Directory>

	ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log

	# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
	# alert, emerg.
	LogLevel warn

	CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined

    Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
    <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
        Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
        Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

And here my hosts file:

Code:

127.0.0.1	localhost
127.0.1.1	wordpress-dev

# The followinag lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

**Stoneface** · August 11th, 2010

Well, thanks to Unixmen I solved some errors by adding

Code:

ServerName localhost

to

Code:

/etc/apache2/apache2.conf

. Now I get this after restarting Apache

Code:

$sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
sudo: unable to resolve host ubuntu
 * Restarting web server apache2                                                 ... waiting

Why I get this:

Code:

sudo: unable to resolve host ubuntu

after restarting and why wordpress-dev still shows localhost in urls I do not know yet.

**Stoneface** · August 11th, 2010

After reading thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=723361 I added

Code:

127.0.1.1 ubuntu

to /etc/hosts and restarted Apache

Code:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

. Now all is good

Code:

* Restarting web server apache2                                                 ... waiting                                               [ OK ]

I now remember removing it as it did not seem needed there. I guess it is.
Now I will see if I can resolve the odd url issue with localhost appearing in the url of my virtualhost wordpress with hostname wordpress-dev like this:

Code:

http://localhost/wordpress/?p=1#comments

**Stoneface** · August 11th, 2010

Well I adjusted some data in wp-options to make site url and home links http://wordpress-dev and activated permalinks. Home is correct now and links to http://wordpress-dev, but all pages and posts give 404s:

Code:

[Wed Aug 11 01:03:08 2010] [error] [client 127.0.1.1] File does not exist: /var/www/wordpress/about, referer: http://wordpress-dev/
[Wed Aug 11 01:03:49 2010] [error] [client 127.0.1.1] File does not exist: /var/www/wordpress/about, referer: http://wordpress-dev/
[Wed Aug 11 01:06:28 2010] [error] [client 127.0.1.1] File does not exist: /var/www/wordpress/about, referer: http://wordpress-dev/

If I turn off permalinks all urls are OK -ie http://wordpress-dev/?page_id=6 works - and lead to all pages and all with http://wordpressd-dev as base url. But why do permalinks not work?

**Stoneface** · August 11th, 2010

Well there appeared to be an error in my .htaccess, which needed fixing. All is peachy with this .htaccess now:

Code:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress