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 * 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
Mircea Vutcovici
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Apache tries to lookup the name defined in the ServerName directive. In your case this is ServerName www.something.com. If you added www.something.com to your hosts file it would stop complaining.

Zoredache
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    This isn't what I thought, but I'm so tired my brain is leaking out my ear, and I'd probably just be babbling about monkeys...Just to clarify your point: www.something.com is distinct from something.com, so if you have something.com in your hosts file, instead of www.something.com, that could be causing the problem. – Satanicpuppy Sep 24 '10 at 00:13
  • i fixed my host file but i still get the error on the server /etc/init.d/apache2 restart * 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. – Matt Elhotiby Sep 24 '10 at 00:17
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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.

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