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7 years ago in Tech

DirectAdmin: “your hostname is setup improperly on your system”

A daily e-mail may be greeting your about your DirectAdmin installation not  being configured properly. Subject: This is e-mail notification to warn you that your hostname is setup improperly on your system. Your hostname, example.be, and the servername you have set in DirectAdmin, abc.example.be, do not match.  It is recommended that these two values are Continue reading →

 
7 years ago in Tech

Solved: Apache webserver unreachable after installing OpenVPN

After installing OpenVPN on a VPS running Linux (i.e. Ubuntu), my website that was hosted on that VPS running Apache webserver was no longer reachable. When I tried to connect to that website, the connection timed out. Apparently, something was messing with the functionality of Apache, which no longer worked properly. Apache was running fine Continue reading →

 
7 years ago in Tech

Fix Apache Error: Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name

I purchased a VPS with DigitalOcean to test out some PHP scripts and to increase my overall Apache and Linux skills. However, upon restarting my Apache webserver running Ubuntu 64-bit, I was greeted with this error message: Fixing this problem is, however, quite easy. Apache wants you to define a ServerName. So let’s add it Continue reading →

 

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