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--- Comment #2 from Peter Poeml 2009-04-24 05:32:04 MDT ---
Why do you want to use a DNS name? Why do you not use "Listen 80"?
DHCP & running a server on a fixed IP just doesn't combine very well.
Note that while specifying a DNS name instead of the IP address may work (I
didn't check), it is not a documented feature, so we cannot support it.
Also note that Apache does resolve the name only when it starts. Later changes
(new IP) won't be noticed and would break the setup.
A "clean" way to solve this would be to use a script that's run triggered by
sysconfig upon IP changes, which writes the "Listen ..." directive into a text
file, which is included by /etc/apache2/listen.conf. The sysconfig framework
has provision for that, and also provision to reload/restart Apache after such
a change occured.
Note that the whole issue is circumvented if you just use "Listen 80" and
"Listen 443".
(By the way, you shouldn't need to specify the optional protocol ("https").
That's usually configured through the vhost configuation.)
For servers, it typically makes sense to use static IPs, mainly for security
reasons.
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