* Restarting web server apache2
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 184.106.238.30 for ServerName
... waiting apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 184.106.238.30 for ServerName
...done.
I am installing a rails application teambox with passenger here is my vhost
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/teambox/public
ServerName www.something.com
<Directory /var/www/teambox/public>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Options -MultiViews
</Directory>
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
RailsEnv production
</VirtualHost>
and in my local host file i have
184.106.238.30 something.com
Apache tries to lookup the name defined in the
ServerName
directive. In your case this isServerName www.something.com
. If you addedwww.something.com
to your hosts file it would stop complaining.What I thought it was (and wicked tired so YMMV) was that Apache's virtual host directive was choking on *:80 with a ServerName declared; I had trouble with that once. Try putting www.something.com:80 in your VirtualHost line, and see if that works.