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When trying to restart Apache (with: service apache2 restart), I get the following error:

/usr/sbin/apache2ctl: 87: ulimit: error setting limit (Operation not permitted)
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
/usr/sbin/apache2ctl: 87: ulimit: error setting limit (Operation not permitted)
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
(13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs
Action 'start' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.

When I try to restart it with another command (sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart), I get the following error:

* Restarting web server apache2                                      
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified
domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName  ... waiting apache2:
Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name,
using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName

I had previously edited etc/apache2/httpd.conf with:

ServerName localhost

In order to resolve the above issue, but it seems not to have worked.

Can anyone help me out with this?

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  • it should be sudo service apache2 restart, 2. The Apache error log may have more information., 3 apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified is not a problem but a configuration issue (and has been answered before: http://askubuntu.com/questions/256013/could-not-reliably-determine-the-servers-fully-qualified-domain-name?rq=1 ) after this apache still is started.
    • – Rinzwind Apr 08 '13 at 10:37
  • Thanks for the reply. I've been on that thread and have edited the httpd.conf accordingly but I still get the error - that's why I thought it would be a different problem to the one on that thread. How do I access the error log to see what's going on? – babbaggeii Apr 08 '13 at 10:51
  • command line: see /var/log It will have an apache log there. – Rinzwind Apr 08 '13 at 11:25
  • @babbaggeii were you trying all of this on docker by any chance? – Pieter Breed Aug 19 '13 at 08:24