How to set ServerName in Apache2?

[zhanjh]

I've added these in the file /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName zhanjh_server
DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory /var/www>
AllowOverride All
Options All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

But when I reload or restart the apache2 I still got this:

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

Thank you!

[spiderbatdad]

also put ServerName above the document root section in /etc/apache2/sites-available/default...or whatever virtual host you are using.

[zhanjh]

I added the servername in the /etc/apache2/sites-available/default.But still not working.

/etc/apache2/sites-available/default:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

ServerName zhanjh_server
DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
.....
</VirtualHost>

[windependence]

Make sure your /etc/hosts has an entry for itself. Also, make sure your box name IS what you are trying to set it to in Apache. What is the return of the hostname command with no parameters?

-Tim

[zhanjh]

Thank you Spiderbatdad and Windependence.Without your help I cannot resolve it.

But I got a new problem. I found the error message in /var/log/apache2/error.log:
[Sat May 09 22:27:58 2009] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Sat May 09 22:27:59 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.11 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.6-3ubuntu4.1 with Suhosin-Patch configured -- resuming normal operations

-------------------------------------------------------------
PS：
/etc/apache2/sites-available/default:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

ServerName zhanjh.com
DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
....
</VirtualHost>

/etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 zhanjh.com localhost.localdomain localhost
127.0.1.1 zhanjh.com

/etc/hostname:
zhanjh.com

[daboroe]

Thank you Spiderbatdad and Windependence.Without your help I cannot resolve it.

But I got a new problem. I found the error message in /var/log/apache2/error.log:
[Sat May 09 22:27:58 2009] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Sat May 09 22:27:59 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.11 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.6-3ubuntu4.1 with Suhosin-Patch configured -- resuming normal operations

-------------------------------------------------------------
PS：
/etc/apache2/sites-available/default:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

ServerName zhanjh.com
DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
....
</VirtualHost>

/etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 zhanjh.com localhost.localdomain localhost
127.0.1.1 zhanjh.com

/etc/hostname:
zhanjh.com

How I took some replies it should be this but I might be misunderstanding them as well

ServerName zhanjh.com
<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        DocumentRoot /var/www
        <Directory />
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride None
        </Directory>
        <Directory /var/www/>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride None
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>
    ....
</VirtualHost>

[immeëmosol]

I hope you've all resolved this by now, but for the sake of reference, those last two messages referred to, are *notices*.

They tell that the server has been restarted.

[wgroth2]

All I had to do was update hosts and the Virtual host entry and default. Thanks for all the info.

br