{"id":1453,"date":"2019-01-30T22:03:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T14:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/?p=1453"},"modified":"2019-02-06T14:33:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T06:33:05","slug":"how-to-change-the-hostname-of-your-raspberry-pi-via-raspi-config-in-raspbian-stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/how-to-change-the-hostname-of-your-raspberry-pi-via-raspi-config-in-raspbian-stretch\/","title":{"rendered":"How to change the hostname of your Raspberry Pi via raspi-config in Raspbian Stretch"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you install Raspbian Stretch<\/a> as the operating system for your Raspberry Pi, the default hostname is raspberrypi<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Since a Raspberry Pi<\/a> is one of the things that programmers buy<\/a>, we could deploy several at home.<\/p>\n

When you have several Raspberry Pis deployed in your house, you may want them to be identified by hostnames.<\/p>\n

So how can we change the hostname of our Raspberry Pi running Raspbian Stretch? This post shows how you can change the hostname of your Raspberry Pi via raspi-config<\/code> in Raspbian Stretch.<\/p>\n

First, open a Terminal window by clicking on the highlighted icon at the top:<\/p>\n

\"Raspbian<\/p>\n

Once the terminal window had started, type the following command in the terminal window:<\/p>\n

\r\nsudo raspi-config\r\n<\/pre>\n
\"Raspbian<\/p>\n
After raspi-config<\/code> loads in your terminal, go through the following screens to change the hostname of your Pi in Raspbian Stretch:<\/p>\n
Select Network Options<\/strong> in the first menu of raspi-config<\/code>:
\n\"Raspbian<\/p>\n
When the Advanced Options menu loads, choose Hostname<\/strong>:
\n\"raspi-config<\/p>\n
After you had selected Hostname<\/strong>, raspi-config<\/strong> shows RFC's mandate for hostname labels:
\n\"raspi-config<\/p>\n
After you had selected Ok<\/strong>, you will then see the existing hostname for your Raspberry Pi:
\n\"raspi-config<\/p>\n
Enter a hostname that you desire. For example, if your Raspberry Pi is going to server as a reverse proxy server<\/a>, you may name it as follows:
\n\"raspi-config<\/p>\n
After you had entered your desired hostname, choose Finish<\/strong> in the first menu of raspi-config:
\n\"Raspbian<\/p>\n
When you do so, raspi-config<\/code> will prompt you to restart your Raspberry Pi:
\n\"Raspbian<\/p>\n
After you choose Yes<\/strong> to reboot your Raspberry Pi, it will take the new hostname that you had given it.<\/p>\n\n