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Okay, basically, all that's wrong is I can't figure out how to allow outside connections to my webserver. I have the latest version of XAMPP installed and have configured port forwarding along with IP and hostname settings with DYNDNS but it still says due to a new security concept, XAMPP cannot allow the connections.
It says to look in httpd-xampp.conf which I'm looking in there right now but don't know which bit to change.

This is the contents of the file from C:\XAMPP\apache\conf\extra:

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#
# XAMPP settings
#

<IfModule env_module>
    SetEnv MIBDIRS "C:/xampp/php/extras/mibs"
    SetEnv MYSQL_HOME "C:\\xampp\\mysql\\bin"
    SetEnv OPENSSL_CONF "C:/xampp/apache/bin/openssl.cnf"
    SetEnv PHP_PEAR_SYSCONF_DIR "C:\\xampp\\php"
    SetEnv PHPRC "C:\\xampp\\php"
    SetEnv TMP "C:\\xampp\\tmp"
    UnsetEnv PERL5LIB
</IfModule>

#
# PHP-Module setup
#
LoadFile "C:/xampp/php/php5ts.dll"
LoadModule php5_module modules/php5apache2_2.dll

<IfModule php5_module>
    <FilesMatch "\.php$">
        SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
    </FilesMatch>
    <FilesMatch "\.phps$">
        SetHandler application/x-httpd-php-source
    </FilesMatch>

    PHPINIDir "C:/xampp/php"
</IfModule>

#
# PHP-CGI setup
#
<IfModule !php5_module>
    <FilesMatch "\.php$">
        SetHandler application/x-httpd-php-cgi
    </FilesMatch>
    <IfModule actions_module>
        Action application/x-httpd-php-cgi "/php-cgi/php-cgi.exe"
    </IfModule>
</IfModule>


<IfModule mime_module>
    AddType text/html .php .phps
</IfModule>

ScriptAlias /php-cgi/ "C:/xampp/php/"
<Directory "C:/xampp/php">
    AllowOverride None
    Options None
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
    <Files "php-cgi.exe">
        Allow from all
    </Files>
</Directory>

<Directory "C:/xampp/cgi-bin">
    <FilesMatch "\.php$">
        SetHandler cgi-script
    </FilesMatch>
    <FilesMatch "\.phps$">
        SetHandler None
    </FilesMatch>
</Directory>

<Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs/xampp">
    <IfModule php5_module>
       <Files "status.php">
          php_admin_flag safe_mode off
       </Files>
    </IfModule>
    AllowOverride AuthConfig
</Directory>

<IfModule alias_module>
    Alias /security "C:/xampp/security/htdocs/"
    <Directory "C:/xampp/security/htdocs">
        <IfModule php5_module>
          <Files "xamppsecurity.php">
             php_admin_flag safe_mode off
          </Files>
        </IfModule>
        AllowOverride AuthConfig
   </Directory>

    Alias /licenses "C:/xampp/licenses/"
    <Directory "C:/xampp/licenses">
        Options +Indexes
        <IfModule autoindex_color_module>
            DirectoryIndexTextColor  "#000000"
            DirectoryIndexBGColor "#f8e8a0"
            DirectoryIndexLinkColor "#bb3902"
            DirectoryIndexVLinkColor "#bb3902"
            DirectoryIndexALinkColor "#bb3902"
        </IfModule>
   </Directory>

    Alias /phpmyadmin "C:/xampp/phpMyAdmin/"
    <Directory "C:/xampp/phpMyAdmin">
        AllowOverride AuthConfig
    </Directory>

    Alias /webalizer "C:/xampp/webalizer/"
    <Directory "C:/xampp/webalizer">
        <IfModule php5_module>
          <Files "webalizer.php">
             php_admin_flag safe_mode off
          </Files>
        </IfModule>
        AllowOverride AuthConfig
    </Directory>
</IfModule>

#
# New XAMPP security concept
#
<LocationMatch "^/(?i:(?:xampp|security|licenses|phpmyadmin|webalizer|server-status|server-info))">
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from ::1 127.0.0.0/8 \
               fc00::/7 10.0.0.0/8 172.16.0.0/12 192.168.0.0/16 \
               fe80::/10 169.254.0.0/16

    ErrorDocument 403 /error/HTTP_XAMPP_FORBIDDEN.html.var
</LocationMatch>


I was wondering if somebody could just show me which bit to change so I can have outside connections to my webserver because it's beginning to bug me now. I have already setup a web server on Ubuntu 9.10 desktop and Slackware 13 using LAMP but since LAMP is for Linux, I have resorted to using XAMPP for Windows which I'm not so good at understanding.

Anywho, like I said. I set everything up with my IP and hostname to coordinate with DYNDNS and already setup port forwarding on the router and I'm using XP Pro SP3.

Thanks for any advice in advance.

how to allow outside connections to my webserver. ... but it still says due to a new security concept,

Just put your own website in htdocs and this website is visible from outside your LAN.

Thanks Wiedmann, i was having the same problem with my web server running xampp.