title: How do i set up the server's fully qualified domain name?
body: <p>When i try to restart apache issueing /etc/init.d/apache2 restart i get the following messages:</p>
  
  <pre><code>root@server:~# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
   * Restarting web server apache2                                                                                                                             apache2: apr_sockaddr_info_get() failed for server
  apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName
   ... waiting apache2: apr_sockaddr_info_get() failed for server
  apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName
                                                                                                                                                        [ OK ]
  root@server:~# cat /etc/hostname
  iSell
  root@server:~# hostname
  server
  root@server:~# hostname -f
  hostname: Name or service not known
  root@server:~# cat /etc/hosts
  127.0.0.1     localhost localhost.localdomain
  108.1.*.*     eins
  root@server:~#
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  <p>Note:the two asterisk at the end  of ip in /etc/hosts are added by me at the time of posting.
  Note2: let's say my domain name is www.xyz.net</p>
  
  <p>I would like to know exactly what i must do step by step please.
  Thank's very much!</p>