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AO_

Reputation: 2894

Error after adding vhost to httpd.conf - centos

I added the following text to httpd.conf at the bottom:

<VirtualHost 12.34.56.78.80>
        ServerAdmin     [email protected]
        DocumentRoot    /var/www/html/some_dir/
        ServerName      foo-bar.example.com
        ErrorLog        /logs/foo-bar.example.com-error_log
        CustomLog       /logs/foo-bar.example.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

..and then when attemping to run the following command:

/etc/init.d/httpd restart

I get the following error:

[error] (EAI 2)Name or service not known: Could not resolve host name 12.34.56.78.80 -- ignoring!

Note that names and the ip address have been changed for this post.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4986

Answers (2)

Markus
Markus

Reputation: 84

It's a typo within your config.

Wrong: <VirtualHost 12.34.56.78.80>

Should be: <VirtualHost 12.34.56.78:80>

Upvotes: 2

Adam Bubela
Adam Bubela

Reputation: 10063

I had the same problem with CentOS server and spent like 1/2 day on investigation. Eventually got it fixed with 2 steps:

STEP 1

Make sure that firewall (iptables) doesn't block port 53. I added to 

/etc/sysconfig/iptables
/etc/sysconfig/ip6tables

the following lines:

-I INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT
-A OUTPUT -p udp -m udp --sport 53 -j ACCEPT
-I INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT
-A OUTPUT -p tcp -m tcp --sport 53 -j ACCEPT

restarted firewall 

# service iptables restart

and then restarted Apache 

# service httpd restart

And then I got again:

[error] (EAI 2)Name or service not known: Cou...

I restarted Apache again and this time the hosts could be resolved but unfortunately the website still didn't work. So I tried restarting Apache several times and the above error occurred randomly!

STEP 2

Nothing worked so I finally restarted the whole server

# /sbin/reboot

and voilà everything started working like a charm!

Upvotes: 0

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