Just a little amendment to this, that note wasn't in httpd.conf, it's in 
/sysconfig/apache. I had them both open and got them mixed up, sorry.

On Thursday 16 January 2003 00:55, A. Putnam wrote:
> Hey everyone, I was wondering if there was someone out there who might be
> able to help me out a little bit. I'm having a problem that's driving me
> nuts. I'm running a linux server (SuSE 8.1) that has mod_ssl pre-installed,
> but not setup. I've been trying to set it up and have gotten as far as
> creating a test certificate, but now I'm stumped with the FQHOSTNAME
> variable.
>
> ((Here's what it says in the httpd.conf...
> # NOTE: before you can enable this module, you need a server certificate.
> # A test certificate can be created by entering
> # 'cd /usr/share/doc/packages/mod_ssl; ./certificate.sh' as root.
> # Also, you need to set the ServerName inside the <VirtualHost
> _default_:443> # block to the fully qualified domain name
> # (see $FQHOSTNAME in /etc/sysconfig/network/config). ))
>
> As it turns out my config file doesn't have the FQHOSTNAME variable at all.
> Is it in another associated file maybe? I've been all over the web and
> while I can find plenty about mod-ssl, I've found next to nothing about
> writing my own FQHOSTNAME variable. I'm still not all that fluent in
> scripting unix code so I'm at a bit of a loss. If anyone knows how I can
> create/find/configure this variable, I'd really appreciate the help. I'm
> setup to use the YaST2 config system as well as direct coding to the files,
> if that helps at all.
>
> Thanks.

-- 
A. Putnam
Assistant IT Administrator
Pelathe Community Resource Center

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