I used the above how-to guide but hit the following problem. After installing Apache, when I restart it, at step 3, I get the comment "Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName" Then when I point my browser to http://localhost/ I get the message "Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. Apache/2.2.3 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.1 Server at localhost Port 80" Also, after installing PHP and setting up the testphp file when, at Step 4, I point to http://localhost/testphp.php I get the message "Not Found The requested URL /testphp.php was not found on this server. Apache/2.2.3 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.1 Server at localhost Port 80" What have I done wrong?
What's in /etc/hosts, and what's the output of Code: hostname and Code: hostname -f ? Did you put your test file into the /var/www directory? What's the output of Code: ls -la /var/www ?
Thanks for your response falko. Here are the answers:- What's in /etc/hosts? - 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 ubuntu-laptop # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::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 what's the output of hostname? - ubuntu-laptop and hostname -f? - ubuntu-laptop Did you put your test file into the /var/www directory? Yes. What's the output of ls -la /var/www? - total 16 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-08-19 11:31 . drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 2007-08-19 15:53 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-08-20 10:28 apache2-default lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2007-08-19 11:31 phpmyadmin -> /usr/share/phpmyadmin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20 2007-08-19 11:23 testphp.php Since posting my query on this forum I've found today, by luck, that there is a directory /home/don/www and if I load the testphp.php page into there it displays ok when I browse to http://localhost/testphp.php. I don't know how that directory came into existence, but if it works, it works! Don
Please set up your hostname as shown in chapter 6 on http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_ubuntu704_p3
Hi falko, When I vi /etc/hosts this message appears E325: ATTENTION Found a swap file by the name "/etc/.hosts.swp" owned by: root dated: Wed Aug 22 19:11:47 2007 file name: /etc/hosts modified: YES user name: root host name: ubuntu-laptop process ID: 6442 While opening file "/etc/hosts" dated: Thu May 24 23:00:57 2007 (1) Another program may be editing the same file. If this is the case, be careful not to end up with two different instances of the same file when making changes. Quit, or continue with caution. (2) An edit session for this file crashed. If this is the case, use ":recover" or "vim -r /etc/hosts" to recover the changes (see ":help recovery"). If you did this already, delete the swap file "/etc/.hosts.swp" to avoid this message. "/etc/hosts" 10 lines, 249 characters Press ENTER or type command to continue I chose the vim -r option and then got the message Using swap file "/etc/.hosts.swp" Original file "/etc/hosts" Recovery completed. You should check if everything is OK. (You might want to write out this file under another name and run diff with the original file to check for changes) Delete the .swp file afterwards. I did rm /etc/.hosts.swp then vi /etc/hosts (didn't get the ATTENTION message this time) and copied/pasted the first two lines as per your howto. I could not find a command to save the file so I closed the window, rebooted the system and got root@server1:/home/don# hostname server1.example.com root@server1:/home/don# hostname -f hostname: Unknown host Now I did vi /etc/hosts and got the ATTENTION message again and then pressing enter to continue got 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 ubuntu-laptop As you will have noticed, I don't really have a good idea of how Linux works, so I'm just following procedures more or less blindly. That seems to be more appropriate in Windows than Linux, so I have decided that I will continue to use Ubuntu for all the other things that it does well for me but go back to XP and use WAMP until I've moved further up the learning curve on Linux. Thanks a lot for your time and help.
If you have files like /etc/.hosts.swp this means that someone else is currently editing /etc/hosts, or more likely, that you simply closed the shell while you were editing /etc/hosts (without saving and leaving vi). If it happens again, delete /etc/.hosts.swp ( Code: rm -f /etc/.hosts.swp ) and read this little guide: http://www.howtoforge.com/faq/12_15_en.html
