Solving IHS Not Starting Issue

usually after a fresh installation we face issues while starting IBM HTP server regarding access of admin username provided in httpd configuration in WAS Admin Console. To solve this kind of ihs not starting issues  we need to add the username provided in IBM IHS in WAS Admin console to let the access to httpd.conf by the admin server adminctl. below are the steps which can be followed to achieve the same:

bash-2.05# su -
Sun Microsystems Inc.   SunOS 5.9       Generic May 2002
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bash-2.05# cd /opt/IBM/HTTPServer/bin
bash-2.05# groupadd admin
bash-2.05# useradd -g admin admin
bash-2.05# ./htpasswd ../conf/admin.passwd admin
New password:
Re-type new password:
Adding password for user root
bash-2.05# ./setupadm -usr admin -grp admin -cfg ../conf/httpd.conf -adm ../conf/admin.conf
-usr admin -grp admin -cfg ../conf/httpd.conf -adm ../conf/admin.conf
Script Completed RC(90)
bash-2.05#
bash-2.05# ./adminctl start
httpd: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 172.18.0.23 for ServerName
./adminctl start: admin http started
bash-2.05#./apachectl start

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