FreeBSD 5.1 - Problem with post-installation configuration of apache13-mod_ssl

[Erik Hollembeak]

You, sir, are my new personal hero. Adding:

192.168.0.103		arcadia	arcadia

into the /etc/hosts file did the trick. Thank you for all your help. I 
was about to give up and throw the piece of garbage down the stairs.

Erik

On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 12:54  PM, Andreas Kohn wrote:

> Am Fri, 2003-06-20 um 11.36 schrieb Erik Hollembeak:
>> Well, apparently its having the same exact problem each time.
>>
>> [Thu Jun 19 06:54:57 2003] [alert] mod_unique_id: unable to
>> gethostbyname("arcadia")
>>
>> arcadia is the name i gave my system on installation when it was on 
>> the
>> screen concerning DHCP. Since the computer is on a LAN, i don't 
>> exactly
>> have a fully qualified domain name that I'm aware of.... would
>> 192.168.blah.blah work to fill this field? On previous linux systems
>> i've set the name to be poo.poo or something to that effect with no
>> problem.
>>
>> Thanks for all the assistance so far. I have quite a few things I plan
>> on doing, and they all hinge on getting Apache working.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Erik
>>
> Try putting that hostname into /etc/hosts. I just checked with my 
> setup,
> and without the hostname in /etc/hosts, I get quite the same message:
>
> [Fri Jun 20 18:50:43 2003] [alert] (EAI 7)No address associated with
> hostname: mod_unique_id: unable to find IPv4 address of "klamath"
> Configuration Failed
>
> (This is Apache2)
>
>> On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 04:47  AM, Andreas Kohn wrote:
>>
>>> Am Fri, 2003-06-20 um 06.02 schrieb Erik Hollembeak:
>>>> I had checked that out earlier. That's the reason I was so 
>>>> confused. I
>>>> really have no idea what's going on and i haven't found anything in
>>>> the
>>>> errata/etc that says anything about Apache issues. I also tried 
>>>> using
>>>> normal apache 1.3, as well as apachessl. both do the same thing. 
>>>> They
>>>> configure fine but refuse to launch.
>>>>
>>>> arcadia# apachectl configtest
>>>> Syntax OK
>>>>
>>>> Erik
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 11:57  PM, jle wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> I have installed the base distribution
>>>>>> + perl from the ports and am currently trying to get apache13 with
>>>>>> mod_ssl working. This has usually been a trivial task, but I've 
>>>>>> been
>>>>>> unable to make any progress, despite the so far wonderful
>>>>>> documentation. Any assistance that could be provided would be
>>>>>> wonderful. Below is my error message and uname -a output.
>>>>>
>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>
>>>>>> arcadia# apachectl start
>>>>>> /usr/local/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started
>>>>>
>>>>> Try 'apachectl configtest' to ensure your httpd.conf is correct.
>>>>>
>>>>> HTH
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Erik Hollembeak
>>>> School of Chemistry and Biochemistry
>>>> Georgia Institute of Technology
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> you may want to check if there are any abnormal messages in the log
>>> files of apache (/var/log/httpd-error.log).
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>> -- 
>>> Andreas Kohn <andreas.kohn at gmx.net>
>>> <signature.asc>
>> Erik Hollembeak
>> School of Chemistry and Biochemistry
>> Georgia Institute of Technology
> -- 
> Andreas Kohn <andreas.kohn at gmx.net>
> <signature.asc>
Erik Hollembeak
School of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Georgia Institute of Technology