My hostname is NOT resolving correctly
 

Last night I installed Apache,Mysql and php in my Fedora box for testing/studying purposes. I changed my hostname to "fidel", but when I type fidel at the browser it takes me to a wiki page about fidel castro. How do I resolve this? Do I need to setup a DNS server also? thanks

you have no dns. the client isn't going to magically know what the server is called. if you want a simple dns implementation, i'd strignly recommend dnsmasq for a 2 minute setup.

You can edit /etc/hosts and add the IP/hostname there.

Dave

I'm looking at it:

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
::1 localhost.localdomain localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost

Can you give me an example of how should I edit this? thanks!

In your case "fidel" is an alias for the machine. "man hosts" (try that in a terminal window) says: "IP_address canonical_hostname aliases", your example: "127.0.0.1 localhost fidel".

Thanks for the info. unSpawn! I will try this tonight.