I am having problems to access my apache server from the outside world. From within the LAN (behind a router) all works fine; (the problem is not the router!, I disconnected the router and connected the machine directly out to conduct the tests) I suspect that it has to do with my network configuration, plus may be some other apache configuration problem. I have a testing machine, kernel 2.4.18 I will include some facts that I hope will help someone help me fix this:
1. Mail received from anacron: /etc/cron.daily/leafnode: Leafnode must have a fully-qualified and globally unique domain name, not just "debian". Edit your /etc/hosts file to add a unique, fully qualified domain name. "localhost.localdomain" or thereabouts will not work; it's qualified, but not unique. Please see the README-FQDN file for details. /etc/cron.daily/leafnode: line 18: 13266 Aborted su news -c "/usr/sbin/texpire" >/dev/null 2. /etc/hosts debian:~$ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 debian localhost # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts # (added automatically by netbase upgrade) ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts 3. Message captured while booting: Starting webserver: apache [Thu Apr 3 19:54:15 2003] [alert] apache: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName So I know that I have to fix the /etc/hosts files, I own some domain name, that I tried to use in there but it made the things worse. I edited /etc/hosts to 127.0.0.1 sub.mydomain.name.org localhost # didn't work 20.45.blah.blah sub.mydomain.name # didn't work I figure that I need to make correspond the name of the machine (debian now) to the name of the server in /etc/hosts, but I am not sure. The name seems to appear in several configuration files (httpd.conf for instance), but I will need some guidance here. Do we have any tool that would take care of reconfiguring everything to the required state? Any ideas will be greatly appreciated, detailed ones will be even better. Thanks to all, Antonio.
