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Hi,
I'm looking for a guide to help secure my dev environment on windows. I gather the security pages have been removed which makes this a tad harder to do!

Hi,

secure up against what?

best wishes,
Altrea

I'd like it to be only accessible on the local machine. However from posts I've read else where I gather this isn't 100% possible?

Sure, that is pretty easy.

Open your \xampp\apache\conf\httpd.conf (plain text editor) and search for the line

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Listen 80

Change the line to listen only on the loopback address 127.0.0.1

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Listen 127.0.0.1:80

same thing for the SSL port 443 in \xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-ssl.conf

restart Apache.
Now Apache is only requestable from the very own computer, not from LAN, not from WAN.