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Archive for the ‘Apache’ Category

Introducing Speedy – Painless rapid Rails deployment

Monday, December 14th, 2009

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If you’re a Rails developer I hope you too hate to run ./script/server command all the time to start the application server during the development phase. Fortunately Phusion came up with a revolutionized solution to host the Rails application on Apache server using Passenger (aka mod_rails).

To deploy a web application on Apache using Passenger you should perform following initial server configurations.

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How to fix Apache – “Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName” Error on Ubuntu

Friday, April 17th, 2009

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You might probably faced the same following error while you were restarting the Apache server on Ubuntu.

aslam@aslam:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
* 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

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