Apache will not start - cannot determine the server's fully qualified domain name

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Everything was fine. Server was up for 90+ days. Updated one virtual server on the CP (changed the DNS MX for the mail server to off-site mail) and then I guess the system restarts Apache automatically, but apache did not restart. All other services are running without issue.

I have tried to restart Apache, have re-booted the server, doubled checked all settings - found that the /etc/hosts only had local hosts listed so manually added the IP and NS. Still can’t start Apache or access any IP address via a browser.

[root@ip-68-178-130-21 ~]# /etc/init.d/httpd restart
Stopping httpd: [FAILED]
Starting httpd: httpd: Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name, using ip-68-178-130-21.ip.secureserver.net for ServerName
[FAILED]

[root@ip-68-178-130-21 ~]# hostname
ip-68-178-130-21.ip.secureserver.net

I am totally stumped as to what is is. Also have flushed iptables

Runing V GPL 4.4 on Appache COS6 on VPS

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The message about the “fully qualified domain name” is not a fatal error, Apache should start anyway. Anything in the syslog and Apache’s error log?

What’s the output for

hostname hostname -f cat /etc/hosts netstat -tpln | grep :80

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I got apache to start by adding the line “severname ip-68-178-130-21.ip.secureserver.net” to /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Apache restarted but still with warning. I’m still not sure if that was the issue. I have also noticed that the network configuration is not installing the eth0:1 and :2 interfaces after reboot, even though they are listed in the boot config.

One other change I made to get it to restart was in the DNS Client Option - I changed the order to DNS, Hosts, Local Hosts. The previous setting was Localhost, DNS.

So I am running but unsure why I was down for 6 hours.

# hostname ip-68-178-130-21.ip.secureserver.net

hostname -f

ip-68-178-130-21.ip.secureserver.net

THE IP LINES I ADDED MANUALLY AS THEY WERE MISSING

cat /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4 ip-68-178-130-21.ip.secureserver.net
::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6 ip-68-178-130-21.ip.secureserver.net
68.178.130.21 ns1.epdigital.biz ns1
68.178.131.108 ns2.epdigital.biz ns2
50.62.34.152 ns1.shoots.com shooots

Auto-generated hostname. Please do not remove this comment.

127.0.0.1 ip-68-178-130-21.ip.secureserver.net ip-68-178-130-21

netstat -tpln | grep :80

tcp 0 0 :::80 :::* LISTEN 2025/httpd