How to change hostname?

[tonymontana]

Hi,

I have to change hostname after install.
I went to CMD_ADMIN_SETTINGS, hostname is s.domain.com, ns1 ns1.domain.com, ns2 ns2.domain.com but it does work. What else I should do?

 

[Richard G]

https://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=405

But in fact you need to change this on your OS to, or at least that's best, also in the /etc/hosts file.

You could google on "change hostname xxxxxxx" where xxxxx is your OS for example Centos 7. Loads of examples to be found.

 

[zEitEr]

Hello,

It's not clear enough what you mean under "it does not work". I would guess you see an old hostname after a server reboot, but your case might differ.

So if you still see an old hostname every time you reboot the server, it might need to connect to control panel of your server provider and change a server name there.

If you have no access to the control panel, or it for any reason does not work, then you might try and add a crontask:

1. login as root into a shell on your server
2. Use crontab -e to edit cron tasks of a super user

@reboot /usr/local/directadmin/scripts/hostname.sh [COLOR=#333333]s.domain.com

3. save changes and exit.[/COLOR]

 

[tonymontana]

https://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=405

But in fact you need to change this on your OS to, or at least that's best, also in the /etc/hosts file.

You could google on "change hostname xxxxxxx" where xxxxx is your OS for example Centos 7. Loads of examples to be found.

Hi, in etc/hosts file i have only IP number like 123-45-678-901.

 

[tonymontana]

So if you still see an old hostname every time you reboot the server, it might need to connect to control panel of your server provider and change a server name there.

I change in control panel hostnames and save it. But when I setup new NS record in privider domain, then this don't work.

 

[zEitEr]

I believe you should connect as a reseller to Directadmin and update a list of nameservers there on a "Nameservers" page.

 

[Active8]

Thank you for your copy paste solution (which is an standard hostname problem solution) on 3 years ! old topic.

 

[Zhenyapan]

@Active8 and also hostname in DA must be modified from DA, because it modifies little more configs than just described commands..