Plesk activation - localhost.localdomain

[Manosk]

Hi, I've just purchased a VPS with Ubuntu 14.04 and Plesk 12 Web Admin Edition. I will use the vps to host just one domain/website. The first time I access Plesk, it asks for some info and first of all it asks form my domain. The default value is localhost.localdomain. Should I leave the default value or should I enter my domain (let's say example.com)?

 

[Manosk]

I need a reply as soon as possible since I have to set up my vps. Please help me! I can't find a solution in the official Plesk guide.
Thanks

 

[UFHH01]

Hi Manosk,

the initial setup without a domain would be i.e: "server1.yourserverproviderdomain.com". If you already setup all DNS - settings over the domain - providers nameserver and the IP already resolves to your domain, then you would choose i.e.: "server1.yourdomain.com" . "localhost" is always the name of the computer/server/box, while "localdomain" is always a Fully Qualified Domain Name ( FQDN - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fully_qualified_domain_name ), which resolves to your IP.

 

[Manosk]

Is it correct to choose just "mydomain.com" (instead of "server.mydomain.com" or "localhost.localdomain" ) as full hostname in the initial Plesk setup?

 

[IgorG]

In command line interface of your server just run:

# hostname -f

You will see hostname of your server in output of this command. Use it.