Change main domain via command line

[ben_tvpp]

OK, for various reasons (including coronavirus) I have moved our backup server to my home and I don’t have a static IP. I’m probably going down a bit of a rabbit hole here but I came across the Virtualmin command-line interface for changing domain details. Seems promising.

So I tried

virtualmin modify-domain --domain main_domain.com --newdomain nredomain.dydns.com

but is said

‘Virtual server imain_domain.com does not exist.’

Which is odd because that’s definitely the main domain, its the one it says I should be using when I do to the servers IP in a browser.

So then i did ‘virtualmin list-domains’ and the main domain is not there ;(. So I guess modify-domain does not apply to the main domain.

So is there a way of changing the main domain using the virtualmin CLI?

I know this is only part of the puzzle but I can probably write a script that uses this command-line program to set the IP also.

Ben

[Ilia]

@ben_tvpp

Which is odd because that’s definitely the main domain, its the one it says I should be using when I do to the servers IP in a browser.

The problem is underscore in your domain name. You will not find any domain type i.e TLD or ccTLD would support registering domains with underscores in it.

[Jamie]

If you want to rename a domain, the correct API command is virtualmin rename-domain

Note that use of underscores is not well supported, and not allowed in TLDs.

[ben_tvpp]

Not for webmin web interface. I actualy solved it by makinh sure /ect hostname and hosts had the correct fully specified domain (and remooted alough you can just type ‘hostname domain.tld’ ). Simple as that.