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How to change the hostname of your Virtual Compute Nodes
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Change Linux Virtual Compute Nodes Hostname
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Please follow the below steps to change the hostname of your Virtual Compute Node.

Step 1: Log in
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`Login to your Virtual Compute Node <https://docs.e2enetworks.com/computes/nodes/connectnode.html>`_ as a root user.

Step 2: Check Hostname
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To check the current hostname of your server, run the command

**# hostname**

To change the hostname of your server, type new name followed by hostname

**# hostnamectl set-hostname new-hostname**

**Step 3: Edit the network configuration file**

**For CentOS**

Edit the /etc/hostname file and update hostname:

# vi /etc/hostname

Step 4: Edit the hosts file
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Edit the /etc/hosts file and update your old-host-name:

**# vi /etc/hosts**

Now save and exit the file.

Step 5: Save Hostname permanently
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Immediately after executing the previous command, the hostname is changed, but the change will last only until the next reboot. To permanently change the hostname, the next step is to run the following command in your terminal

**# cd /etc/one-context.d/**

This will take you inside the directory one-context.d

List the contents of the directory by running the following command,

**# ls -la**

You will see the following result

.. image:: images/hostname1.png

We need to move the directory **05-hostname** to the root folder. For KVM-based servers, you will have a directory as **net-15-hostname**. To execute this run the following command in the terminal.

**# mv 05-hostname /root/**

or

**# mv net-15-hostname /root/**

Now your hostname is changed permanently.

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For cPanel Server Node
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**Step 1.** First follow the above-mentioned steps to change server hostname

**Step 2.** To change the server’s hostname, use `WHM’s Change Hostname <https://docs.cpanel.net/whm/networking-setup/change-hostname/>`_ interface (WHM >> Home >> Networking Setup >> Change Hostname).

**Step 3.** Add the following lines into your Server node **/etc/sysctl.conf** configuration file.

**kernel.hostname = hostname.domainname.com**

**kernel.domainname = domainname.com**

**Step 4.** And execute the command **# sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf** to read and apply the changes of your /etc/sysctl.conf configuration file.