Hi! I am completely new to IIS, and have spent the last couple of weeks reading up on IIS7, and trying to make a public facing website with IIS7 on my Server 08 enterprise server. At this point, i have successfully installed IIS, and the web server related roles, i have also installed php, and fastcgi.
I have read articles, and watched video tutorials on how to create a site within IIS (specifically, there was a video i found on this website that showed how to create a site, the guy doing the video made one "burton.com" in the video). I followed along with everything the guy in this video did (however i used my own html files obviously) and could not achieve the same results that he received- ie a working site- i can access the default site at http://localhost. There was one point in the video that i was dumbstruck, after createing the site in IIS, and setting it up there, he opened his browser and said something to the effect of "made dns entries..." and he was able to punch in www.burton.com in his browser and get to the site he had just made.
What am i missing here? I am trying to become a web host, and actually have a number of clients essentially waiting for me to get to where i can host myself- i really dont want to go towards a unix system w/ apache.
It seems to me that i'm missing some all important steps related to DNS entries, or setting up a nameserver even?
Could anyone point out to me what i may be missing here? Thanks!