{"id":5452,"date":"2015-12-19T21:59:38","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T13:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rmohan.com\/?p=5452"},"modified":"2015-12-19T21:59:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T13:59:38","slug":"error-installation-can-not-proceed-please-fix-your-etchosts-file-zimbra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/?p=5452","title":{"rendered":"ERROR: Installation can not proceed. Please fix your \/etc\/hosts file \u2013 Zimbra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This error took me an hour to solve<br \/>\nERROR: Installation can not proceed. Please fix your \/etc\/hosts file<br \/>\nYou need to make sure the hostname is on the first line and should match the hostname of the server. All the documentation I see mentions something like mail.domain.com. This leads to confusion because usually your server hostname is going to be something else.<\/p>\n<p>This is what my host file looks like which let me proceed<br \/>\nxxx.xxx.xxx.xxx host.domain.com<br \/>\n127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost<br \/>\nAlso, make sure you use the actual IP of your server and not the loop back IP address<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This error took me an hour to solve ERROR: Installation can not proceed. Please fix your \/etc\/hosts file You need to make sure the hostname is on the first line and should match the hostname of the server. All the documentation I see mentions something like mail.domain.com. This leads to confusion because usually your server [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5453,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5452\/revisions\/5453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}