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I'm not sure what to enter as a hostname if the server I'm using only has a numerical IP address and not a domain name. I've tried installing using the IP address as the hostname but I'm getting a page not found when I try to log in to my IP address:2222

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Jay
 
You have to use a domain, but not any domains that you are going to actually use on your server. For example instead of exampledomain.com use something like server1.exampledomain.com
However you won't be able to use the hostname to access the server unless you have the domain setup and pointing to the server properly, in which case you might as well use the domain to login.
 
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Jon,

I think your post is a bit misleading.

You hostname should not be a duplicate of any domain name on the server, but, for example, if you've got a domain name called example.com that you ARE going to put on the server you can certainly call the server host.example.com.

Jeff
 
I used to name all my machines after people in Greek mythology. Like Zeus and Apollo etc etc.

I still do that on private network installs but when you have a lot of servers having something a little more descriptive like mysql01.hostname.xxx is much more helpful.

Even if it is not as fun :)
 
I do what you do, Skippy, but I'm seriously considering going back to what you used to do.

Because now when i take a machine out of service I end up using the hostname, and that's really not a good idea if you log trouble tickets, work, etc.

So perhaps...

metis.ez-access.com as an A record

and

ns1.ez-access.com as another A record pointing to the same IP#, or a CNAME record pointing to the canonical name of metis.

Jeff
 
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