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How to Change Hostname in Ubuntu Easily

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This post will show you How to change hostname in Ubuntu Easily.

How to change hostname in Ubuntu Easily

Are you looking for changing the hostname in Ubuntu server. So here is the solution to change hostname in ubuntu server.

We need to make a entries in two files as below.

1. vi /etc/hosts
192.168.2.1    hostname.learnitguide.net     hostname

Replace "hostname" with your server hostname and also "learnitguide.net" with your domain name.

2. vi /etc/hostname
hostname.learnitguide.net

Replace the content with your hostname and domain name.

After doing the changes, run any of these command or reboot the server for the changes to take effect.

sudo service hostname restart
or
cat /etc/hostname > /proc/sys/kernel/hostname

Hope this post helped you to know How to change hostname in Ubuntu Easily.


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