Node JS return hostname

Question

I\'m still learning Node JS and javascript and have an app. I have a configuration file where I need to grab the hostname of the server on Ubuntu 12.04

I tried some

Answer 1

You can only get the same host name you would get from window.location.hostname if you're running a server with http.createServer. In that case, the host name is one of the properties of the request object:

request.headers.host

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