Cannot restart Apache?

I just installed Apache from homebrew (brew install httpd).

When i try to restart it with the command :

 sudo apachectl --restart

I get this message :

AH00558: httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using daniel.local. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message
httpd (pid 40659) already running

Only way i can really restart Apache is by restarting the machine...

Any ideas ?

Thanks

1 Answer

For the Brew version of Apache (httpd) it is installed in the /usr/local tree. You can find the httpd.conf file at /usr/local/etc/httpd/httpd.conf

In the httpd.conf there is a directive called ServerName and the default config is:

#
# ServerName gives the name and port that the server uses to identify itself.
# This can often be determined automatically, but we recommend you specify
# it explicitly to prevent problems during startup.
#
# If your host doesn't have a registered DNS name, enter its IP address here.
#
#ServerName 

Uncomment the ServerName and specify a fully qualified hostname.

Other host names can be defined in VirtualHosts as needed.

If you are not using ports in the protected range you do not need to use sudo.