Guide to securing XAMPP in windows?

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Guide to securing XAMPP in windows?

Postby matteusbeus » 13. May 2016 00:36

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!
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Re: Guide to securing XAMPP in windows?

Postby Altrea » 13. May 2016 01:43

Hi,

secure up against what?

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Re: Guide to securing XAMPP in windows?

Postby matteusbeus » 13. May 2016 09:39

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?
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Re: Guide to securing XAMPP in windows?

Postby Altrea » 13. May 2016 14:25

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.
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