Bug#465604: apache2 does not start on IPv4-only system

On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Holger Mickler wrote:
> A fresh install of apache2 does not work on a self-compiled kernel
> which has only IPv4 enabled. It does not work on the stock debian
> kernel either when IPv6 is blacklisted.

I tried it with the standard kernel and IPv6 disabled, but I could not reproduce your problem.

> The following are the error messages:
>
> A) With default config
>
> $ /etc/init.d/apache2 start
> Starting web server: apache2apache2: apr_sockaddr_info_get() failed
> for snoopy apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully
> qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName no listening
> sockets available, shutting down
> Unable to open logs
> failed!

What is in the error log in this case? Does "snoopy" appear anywhere in your apache config or is it your hostname? What is its entry in /etc/hosts? There is nothing else listening on port 80, is there?

Cheers,
Stefan

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