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Can a server name be the same name as a domains? Will this lead to problem when configuring server block?

Peter Tremblay
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  • please be more specific what is the BUSINESS RELATION in here? As currently i dont see this and thereforce it might be offtopic. End-User question like this, can be asked on superuser.com – djdomi Aug 31 '22 at 08:02
  • @djdomi That's OK i will not ask anything again, thank for your help! – Peter Tremblay Aug 31 '22 at 16:20

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Although the question is vague, this might be the answer you're looking for: Assume you have a domain name "example.com" which you have registered with a domain provider. You want to attach that domain name to a server called "www" so people can access a website hosted at "www.example.com."

When you configure the domain, you create a DNS "A" record which points to the IP address for the "www" host of "example.com." This is the "external" name of the server, the domain name. In other words, the FQDN of the server is www.example.com.

The local machine "hostname" of the server at that IP Address can be "www" or anything else. Although it sometimes can be anything else, almost always, the internal hostname and the external domain name of the server should match.

So, with this example, yes, the server name can and should be the same as the domain's name of the server: www.

To find out what an internal server name is, in Linux, type "hostname" and it will show you the server name. In Windows, you can look at System information and look for Computer Properties, Computer name, or sometimes "Device Name"

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