berks,
thanks for the input. i am definitely interested in your experience with the perfect server tutorial.
but before i go there i want to elaborate on what i have done so far.
first i have been getting great advice all over the place from different forums about building a centos web server. however, i find it fascinating the response i got from the centos.org forum. if i have read the response correctly it seems that there is a demographic of members on the centos.org forum
https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/index.php
who are not openly supportive of the perfect server tutorial.
At this point, I am neutral on the subject and I just want toe learn as much as possible about CentOS and learning to build a web server is just one of the many sub topics.
FYI, I am currently studying the default intalled packages and group packages on the desktop version.
i have two isos downloaded: the minimal install iso and the desktop iso.
the desktop iso seems to work fine for the wiki.centos tutorial. the problem i am still trying to conquer on the wiki.centos tutorial is configuring the httpd.conf.
but i am not satisfied with that tutorial alone.
i want to be able to complete the perfect server tutorial eventually as well. however, i ran into an issue on the very first page of the perfect server tutorial.
actually there are a few problems. the broadband internet service i have is a dynamic ip address to start with.
the web server is only going to host one wordpress website and the i it is not necessary for the website to be online 24/7. so if the ip address changes at any unanticipated time i would probably just change the betwork setting to reflect the new ip address manually in a worse case scenario.
i purchased the domain animaguy.com from register.com and it was suggested to me via a forum that if my internet service did not provide a static ip address, i should consider pointing my domain to a service that caters to dynamic ip addresses such as dnsexit.com. this is what i currently have done but i can always point it back to register.com if necessary.
i am interested in what your thoughts are regarding this matter.
also, when i install centos using the desktop iso, the installation wizard doesnt allow me to configure the network like it says on the perfect server tutorial. so if i use the desktop iso to follow the perfect server tutorial i will have to manually configure the network after the installation is complete.
i also noticed that the wiki.centos tutorial never instructs the user to manually configure the network to build a server. and when i use the minimal installation iso. i do not know the consequences of adding a dns nameserver that runs underneath a dynamic ip address.
furthermore, if while using the minimal installation iso i skip the network configurations the command prompt doesnt seem to work properly in that it cant perform yum commands that otherwise work on the desktop iso and the minimal installation iso seems to be offline.
Question:
is it necessary to manually configure the network, especially since i have a dynamic ip address service with my internet providers?
any input is definitely appreciated