Hi Everyone,
Super newbie here at DO and anything command line. I followed all of the basic steps for setting up a droplet and completed the setup of UFW as well. When following the LEMP setup guide, I am stuck in the section where I must tell sql to create a directory structure by entering:
sudo mysql_install_db
I’m not sure why but I am generating the following upon entering it:
FATAL ERROR: Neither host ‘droplet_name’ nor ‘localhost’ could be looked up with /usr/bin/resolveip Please configure the ‘hostname’ command to return a correct hostname. If you want to solve this at a later stage, restart this script with the --force option
Can someone shed some light as to why this is happening or provide a potential solution?
Appreciate any help!
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As the error indicates, you seem to have somehow misconfigured the hostname on your Droplet. Have you edited the /etc/hosts file? Make sure its contents include:
127.0.1.1 droplet-name
127.0.0.1 localhost
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