One of the server I am using is running ubuntu. I am installing memcached on the server and every time I restart the web server I always have the error “Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName”. If you are having the same error then this post is for you. To solve the problem this is how I solved the problem.

Open the cli and use the command to edit apache’s config file:

The file is empty by default. Add the line:

Save the changes and restart the server:

I hope this solved the problem… Happy coding!

Most web developers use a “third party” web server which comes in a package such as WAMP or XAMPP resulting to miss configuration of the web server to perform several capabilities.  One of which is allowing htaccess configuration to take over the webserver’s main configuration.  Even apache itself usage of htaccess is disabled by default and configuring the server is needed to allow htaccess on your server.  Below is how to allow htaccess on your web server:

Open your Apache httpd.conf Configuration File and “uncomment” the line

You can “uncomment” it by removing the number sign “#” resulting to

After removing the number sign you need to change the AllowOverride directive, the default configuration is:

It should be changed to :

You also need to change the line

to

this can be found where you set your DocumentRoot where in my case is set to (</Directory “D:/HTDOCS”>).  After configuring Apache you need to restart the server for the changes to take effect.