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Web Server Set Up - Dynamic or Static IP

Apache Web Server configuration for Redhat 7.3, 8.0 and 9.0 with Dynamic ip to router. This section is designed to detail the steps you may need to go through to setup a server on an ISP that only gives out a dynamic IP address. You will need to edit network configuration on your server by set it to statically and taking the ip number you've been assigned by your router (eg) - (192.168.0.2), subnet mask 255.255.255.0 and gateway 192.168.0.1, and use your isp nameservers ip's. The general approach is to use a dynamic ip address yet access your server via a domain name. This allows you and others to always reach your website from the outside even if the ip address changes regularly. Basically what needs to be done is to configure the apache configuration file httpd.conf for your dynamic IP. You could access you site via your current ip address but since you have a dynamic ip, it may change every few days, weeks or months and you would have to tell everybody every time it changes....