By erelsgl
I am trying to migrate my current website to DO. The migration is probably going to take several days. During these days, I want my host name to point to the old server. However, when I try to create a droplet in DO, I am asked to provide the host name.
I would like to create a droplet without a hostname, access it via its IP address, and check that it is working OK, before I migrate my hostname to DO. Is this possible?
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Yes any hostname works and after reading this I did the same and went into problems. <br> <br>Currently I’m facing problem due to using any hostname. Say e.g. host.mywebsite.com. Everytime I run “sudo” command in my unbuntu droplet. It warns “sudo: unable to resolve host host.mywebsite.com”. Further on of my programs uses sudo command and now the programs throws exception because of this. <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>
@umakantpatil7: Add the following line to <code>/etc/hosts</code>: <br><pre>127.0.0.1 host.mywebsite.com</pre>
Hostname does <b>not</b> equal domain name. Sounds like you’re confusing the two for one in the same. Go ahead and create the hostname – and you’ll be able to accomplish exactly what you’re trying to do.
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