mod_unique_id: unable to find IPv4 address

[Gary Fitts]

That works! Thanks so much. I hope others can find this in the archive in the future.


> On Mar 21, 2015, at 8:12 AM, Mihai Moldovan <ionic at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> On 21.03.2015 02:30 AM, Gary Fitts wrote:
>> Installed MacPorts for the first time, then installed apache2. When I run sudo port load apache2, an httpd process starts up, and even responds to requests (to http://localhost) if I get them in fast enough. But then the process exits (whether or not it received any requests). The error log shows this:
>> 
>> [Fri Mar 20 11:40:41 2015] [warn] Init: Session Cache is not configured [hint: SSLSessionCache]
>> [Fri Mar 20 11:40:46 2015] [alert] (EAI 8)nodename nor servname provided, or not known: mod_unique_id: unable to find IPv4 address of "iMac.local"
>> Configuration Failed
>> 
>> I’ve searched the archives of this list and I see several references to similar problems, but no resolutions. Any help would be appreciated!
> 
> The easiest way of fixing this is to add your hostname (iMac.local) to
> the 127.0.0.1 and ::1 entries in /etc/hosts, like this:
> 
> sudo -e /etc/hosts
> 
> change to:
> "127.0.0.1    localhost iMac.local"
> "::1    localhost iMac.local"
> 
> I don't know why the stateless autoconfiguration stuff fails in your
> case and I can't test it either, because my hostname is resolvable
> within my system by my own (internal and external) name server.
> 
> Mihai