Bug 18801 – The new baselayout hostname setting breaks Apache2 Config

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: VERIFIED INVALID

[Description Tony Murray 2003-04-05 08:33:10 UTC]

I cannot set my hostname correctly for apache because of the new
/etc/init.d/hostname. This is a result of two problems, at least one needs to be
fixed.

I need to set my hostname to murrant.no-ip.org, which is what I have in
/etc/hostname, but the new hostname mangles it down to just murrant, which will
not work...

When I uncomment "ServerName murrant.no-ip.org" in
/etc/apache2/conf/apache2.conf it does not take the hostname I give it, but uses
what /bin/hostname gives.  If I set hostname to murrant.no-ip.org with
/bin/hostname, apache will start.

baselayout-1.8.6.4-r1
apache-2.0.44

[Comment 1 Tony Murray 2003-04-05 15:34:13 UTC]

The problem still occurs with apache 2.0.45.

[Comment 2 Donny Davies (RETIRED) 2003-04-06 00:57:04 UTC]

what does your hosts file look like, afaik it should appear thusly:

# /etc/hosts
ip.add.re.ss fully.qualified.domain.name alias

[Comment 3 Tony Murray 2003-04-06 01:00:20 UTC]

I have nothing in it (except localhost) because I am on a college campus and I get DHCP IP address, and it changes, so I would have to change it all the time...

[Comment 4 Bjarke Istrup Pedersen (RETIRED) 2003-04-06 06:06:42 UTC]

This should be fixed ASAP.

[Comment 5 Stefan Förster 2003-04-12 06:26:24 UTC]

/bin/hostname should never be used to set the result of gethostname(2) to soemthing containig a dot ;-)
In fact, if your are using DHCP to configure your local system, it is the responsibility of your DHCP-client to set the local hostname to an unqualified form which can easyily be qualified (remember, a FQDN is not the result fo gethostname(2) but the result of calling gethostbyname(3) for the result of gethostname(2)).
Using static IP configuration, this is achieved using a line in /etc/hosts which contains the FQDN in the second and the unqualified name in the third column, using dynamic configuration, you will have to set up a nameserver which is updated by the DHCP-server.
This is not a bug in baselayout. And I guess that apache2 ignores a hostname given in the config files is due to the fact that the hostname could either not be qualified or was already given in a qualified form.

[Comment 6 Stefan Förster 2003-04-12 06:32:25 UTC]

Well, I don't use DHCP at home, but I think, if you do not want to dynamically update a DNS server, it would be sufficient to have the DHCP-client adding a line of the form like Donny Davies suggested it to /etc/hosts.

[Comment 7 Tony Murray 2003-04-13 22:52:57 UTC]

Okey dokie.  Well I modified /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/yp.conf to use "no-ip.org" instead of "bvu.edu".  And that resolved the problem.

Sorry about the invalid bug guys, the new baselayout just exposed a misconfiguration of my system.  Now it is fixed and humming along.

[Comment 8 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-04-22 06:28:24 UTC]

closing with comment #7

[Comment 9 Tony Murray 2005-01-24 10:49:14 UTC]

Closing old bugs.