could not resolve host name while setting up namevirtualhost

Question

I have been working on setting up namevirtualhosts on my centos 5 server. I have added all of the virtualhosts to my httpd.conf file and alos uncommented the namevirtualhost line.I also have my domain name pointing to the correct ip address. I keep getting these errors and cannot seem to figure out why.

[error] (EAI 2)Name or service not known: Could not resolve host name *:80/ -- ignoring!
[error] (EAI 2)Name or service not known: Could not resolve host name *:80/ -- ignoring!

I have looked all over the place and at many tutorials but nothing seems to work

Solution

Looks like a typo.

Instead of:

NameVirtualHost *:80

..you have:

NameVirtualHost *:80/

Since the port section isn't pure numbers, instead of seeing * as the host part, it thinks *:80/ is a hostname (and :80 is the implied default port, for a config of *:80\:80).

Fix that and you should be ok.