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hostname and virtualserver cant be the same?

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#1 Sun, 08/14/2011 - 15:04

puspharaj47

hostname and virtualserver cant be the same?

Hi everybody,

i have setup my hostname to dungen.com the FDQN name is also dungen.com. i have installed the virtualmin under my ubuntu10.04 when try to create the virtualserver its says you cannot create the dungen.com its already exist.

what supposed i to do here i tried to rename the dungen.com to dungen1.com and after successful creation of the server i will rename it to dungen.com. but the problems is its referring the dungen1.com sometimes like awstats and the things.

Please advice what to do ............

#2 Sun, 08/14/2011 - 15:28

andreychek

Howdy,

Well, an FQDN should be in the format "host.domain.tld", so in your case, you'd want your hostname to be something like "server1.dungen.com".

Problems can arise when a Virtual Server contains the same name as the hostname, so it prevents you from creating a Virtual Server with that name.

My recommendation would be to change your server's hostname to be a full FQDN in the host.domain.tld format. At that point, you should then be able to add a Virtual Server of the name "dungen.com".

-Eric

#3 Fri, 08/19/2011 - 08:06

andreychek

Nope, you're welcome to change the server's hostname.

When you do that, just make sure that you also update the hostname in /etc/hosts, and on the mydestination line of /etc/postfix/main.cf.

-Eric

#4 Fri, 08/19/2011 - 08:53

Locutus

...and in /etc/hostname, and /etc/mailname. :)

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