If you need to change the hostname of your web server, you can do this with the following steps:

1. Login in your server with root

2. nano /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.1.50 server1.foo.com server1
192.168.1.50 ns1.foo.com ns1
192.168.1.51 ns2.foo.com ns2

save changes and exit.

3. nano /etc/resolv.conf

search xe-group.net
nameserver 192.168.1.50
nameserver 192.168.1.51
save changes and exit.

4. nano /etc/sysconfig/network

NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=”server1.foo.com”
GATEWAY=”192.168.1.1″
GATEWAYDEV=”eth0″
FORWARD_IPV4=”yes”

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