[plug] simple Apache Q

[Ryan]

ServerName localhost

or

ServerName 127.0.0.1

and a restart of apache should be fine to get it going, you can't do any 
damage changing this setting.

Ryan

At 10:26 PM 04-01-02 +0800, you wrote:
>Hi guys,
>
>I've just been getting stuck into learning some PHP and would like to do 
>more experimenting on my box. So I read some docs and apt-got apache-perl 
>plus the php4 modules so I could parse .php pages locally. However, when I 
>tried to connect to http://localhost/ I was refused. Investigation led me 
>to (the bleeding obvious) conclusion that the httpd wasn't running. 
>"apachectl fullstatus" told me that this was because the "ServerName" in 
>httpd.conf had not been set. I was tempted to change this to "localhost" 
>or my localhostname but the docs told me not touch this unless I knew what 
>I was doing, which clearly I don't. ;-)
>I know that this is supposed to be a proper, registered name and IP 
>address for machines serving the internet, but is there a simple way I can 
>get this serving locally so that I can save pages to /var/www and parse 
>them to the browser client?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Sol