Renaming a droplet

April 7, 2014 21.4k views
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Hi Folks, When asked to give the droplet a name, the docs told me a droplet could be renamed later at any time. So now I want to do that I can't find how to. Would somebody please tell me?
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kamaln7 MOD April 7, 2014
Make sure you also edit your droplet's hostname internally as well. Update /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts and reboot.
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  • manujanardhanan October 31, 2014

    Kamal,

    I renamed the droplet into my primary domain ( somename.com ), what will be the ideal update in /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts

  • chris324769 April 6, 2015

    Just curious. Why can't the hostname be changed automatically in those two places when we perform a rename in the control panel?

    • AlexisWilke May 27, 2016

      From what I understand that would require taking your server down, applying the change, and then taking it back up. Also it could conflict with some other settings you have on your computer, so probably not worth the trouble in most cases. Plus there is no real need for the names to be the same.

  • kainoack October 8, 2017

    "and reboot"

    Do you mean to reboot Apache or the entire server? sude reboot I guess.

to.mars.and.back.on.a.turtle April 7, 2014
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superuser October 1, 2014

http://i.imgur.com/OhbV43b.png

the original image link is offline. Settings > Rename

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monoteos February 1, 2015

If you are using CentOS you need to update this file /etc/sysconfig/network

Contents of this file:

NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=mydropletname.com

so just change HOSTNAME and that's it

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  • stevepatco July 1, 2015

    If you are using CentOS you need to update this file /etc/sysconfig/network does not extist on my centos 6.5 droplet.

    and neither do etc/hosts or etc/hostnames on my ubuntu droplet

ppkrauss April 27, 2017

Today (2017) the interface enabling direct name change: at the page of your Cloud Panel (cloud.digitalocean.com/droplets...), simply click on the current name of the Droplet, and you will then be able to input whatever name you choose. Thanks @MikeG.

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