Topic: httpd msg and where domain name comes from

[bbxrider]

running 2.2.4 on winxp pro
when checking my virtual hosts with httpd i got this msg:
Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 192.168.0.105 for ServerName
my new site and virtual hosts seem to be working ok, but will this be problem at some point? where does apache try to get the domain name from? if its not there is there some way i can get it there?
and
while talking about domain names, i was going to set up the /server-status and it has the 'allow from' domain name parameter, again where does that domain name come from? i have used remote_host from the cgi environment variables, but never heard of domain name being sent to a web server? where does this domain name come from, on the requesting browser side, and where is it found in the request data coming into apache, does apache somehow make that info available ?
sorry for the newbie barrage of questions, but i found almost nothing in the manual and google

[James Blond]

If you use name based vhots you have to set a name like example.tld or youhave to change your vhost setup to ip-based.

[bbxrider]

i'm using 4 virtual host directives, 3 have servernames for the 3 domain names being hosted and i thought i needed the 4th without a specifically named servername to set the virtual hosting in operation?

i used the following to set up server status
<Location /server-status>
SetHandler server-status
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Location>

but when accessing from my browser on the apache machine with
localhost/server-status,
i get page not found 404
any other ideas why server status not working?

[James Blond]

You need to do in httpd.conf

ExtendedStatus On
LoadModule status_module modules/mod_status.so

Place the location container only one time outside the vhosts!

<Location /server-status>
SetHandler server-status
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Location>

Hope that helps