SOLVED FQDN problem when install cpanel / whm trial

[guarez]

Hello, I am trying to install the trial version of cpanel, but when trying to do it I get the following error, which I try to fix according to the indication that appears by typing

hostname www.web123.com


But then I get another error where it states that it cannot have www. How do i solve this?

2020-12-20 09:31:39 718 [979] ( INFO): Validating that the system hostname ('web123.com') is a FQDN...
2020-12-20 09:31:39 724 [979] (ERROR):
2020-12-20 09:31:39 725 [979] (ERROR): ********************* ERROR *********************
2020-12-20 09:31:39 726 [979] (ERROR):
2020-12-20 09:31:39 727 [979] (ERROR): Your hostname (web123.com) is invalid, and must be
2020-12-20 09:31:39 728 [979] (ERROR): set to a fully qualified domain name before installing cPanel.
2020-12-20 09:31:39 729 [979] (ERROR):
2020-12-20 09:31:39 730 [979] (ERROR): A fully qualified domain name must contain two dots, and consists of two parts: the hostname and the domain name.
2020-12-20 09:31:39 731 [979] (ERROR): You can update your hostname by running `hostname your-hostname.example.com`, then re-running the installer.
2020-12-20 09:31:39 733 [979] (ERROR): ********************* ERROR *********************
2020-12-20 09:31:39 734 [979] (FATAL): Exiting...


2020-12-20 09:32:39 719 [1110] (FATAL): The installation process detected the following hostname: www.web123.com
Hostnames cannot start with www! Use a valid hostname.

 

[kodeslogic]

Recommended hostnames are example01.yourdomain.com, server01.yourdomain.com, host01.yourdomain.com, anything.yourdomain.com.

So in your case, you can set hostname as server.web123.com OR host.web123.com as a fully qualified domain name.

For CentOS 7 use the below command to set the hostname.
#hostnamectl set-hostname server.web123.com

Once you set a valid hostname installation should be good.

 

[ffeingol]

Just to add in, you can't use the 'www' host name as it does not want the host name to be a site that you might host. Hopefully that makes sense.

 

[cPRex]

As the above two posts said, you want your hostname to be unique and *not* something that may ever host web content. Once that is setup the installer will work properly.

 

[guarez]

thanks for the help!

 

[cPRex]

Sure thing!