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I'd like to restrict access to Xampp to my laptop only. So far, I've been using .htaccess to protect the directories (htdocs, phpmyadmin, etc.) but I don't want other machines on my LAN to even get that far. In other words, if I use a browser on another PC in my office to go to my laptop's IP, which is fixed, I get the login dialog which you'd expect, but what I'd like to happen is just have the access denied without presenting the dialog - as if the Xampp ports were completely closed, or didn't even exist.

Is this something that I can accomplish through Apache configuration, or do I need to set rules in my firewall (Zone Alarm Pro)? Right now, I need to have my LAN be a "trusted" zone in ZA Pro in order to use file sharing and network rendering...

Thanks!

Is this something that I can accomplish through Apache configuration,

You can change the "Listen" directive in "httpd.conf" (and "httpd-ssl.conf") ...

or do I need to set rules in my firewall

... or you can block the ports (80 and 443) in your firewall.

Thanks for the concise and quick reply!

The listen directive worked just fine, and as an extra measure I blocked the new "listen" ports in my firewall also.