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Installing Plesk 12.5 on Ubuntu 14.04, setting up correct hostname?

I am trying to install Plesk 12.5.3 on fresh VPS running Ubuntu 14.04. Im using http://vultr.com (similar to digitalocean.com) etc

The part I am struggling with is what to put in the /etc/hosts/ and /etc/hostname as this is required for the Plesk install.

Say my main domain name is hello.com and I want to have the plesk panel sit at server.hello.com

ubuntu-server is the name I have given my droplet

Default /etc/hostname

ubuntu-server

Default /etc/hosts :

127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.1.1       guest

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

127.0.0.1 guest
::1       guest

127.0.0.1 ubuntu-server
::1       ubuntu-server

What do I need to change this to? Do I need all of the above?

Solution

  • Ended up working it out.

    In my /etc/hostname I needed

    server.hello.com

    In my /etc/hosts I needed this:

    127.0.0.1       server.hello.com server localhost.localdomain localhost
IP.OF.SEVER.HERE    server.hello.com     server