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Help with Xampp

PostPosted: 18. October 2004 23:22
by khhaven
Hi I'm new to all this and was wondering if xampp can be configured for outside use, what I mean by that is how do i set it up so that other people outside of my network can view my pages and what I know that i have to port 80 foward, are there any others?

PostPosted: 19. October 2004 17:27
by taustin
Standard web pages run on port 80. SSL stuff runs on port 443. That's largely it, so far as the software is concerned. You need a public IP address that allows incoming connections, and if you want it to have a normal domain name, you need DNS service to point that domain to your public IP address.

PostPosted: 19. October 2004 21:45
by khhaven
Thank ya, Umm I also need to know which files to edit and put my ip adress so that everything will work properly, and do i have to open my 3306 port on my router so that MySql works?

PostPosted: 20. October 2004 00:08
by taustin
khhaven wrote:Thank ya, Umm I also need to know which files to edit and put my ip adress so that everything will work properly,


So far as Apache/Xampp is concerned, http.conf is where you set stuff up. So far as DNS is concerned, you need a DNS server, or a service that provides it. There are several free DNS servers available for Windows, but I'm not sure I'd recommend that route if you're not familiar with what DNS actually does. ZoneEdit gets mentioned a lot as a free service that works well, though I'm not familiar with them myself. Take a look at http://www.zoneedit.com/ and see if it makes sense.

khhaven wrote:and do i have to open my 3306 port on my router so that MySql works?


Assuming you're talking about your web site, running on the same computer as the MySQL server, no, you don't need to worry about that (and don't want to open it up). MySQL isn't accessed by someone accessing your web site, it's accessed by Apache, running on your own machine, so it's all local access.

PostPosted: 20. October 2004 01:29
by khhaven
thank you very much, but now there is a problem I seem to be able to get into my normal html website but not my php nuke website it tells me that "

"There seems to be a problem with the MySQL server, sorry for the inconvenience.

We should be back shortly."

heres the links:
the one that doesnt work: http://animeotaku.no-ip.org/
the link to norm website: http://animeotaku.servehttp.com/

Heres 2 links of the 2 pages in case my comp is off when u try an access the pages:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v123/khhaven/screwed_up.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v123/khhaven/norm.jpg

PostPosted: 20. October 2004 01:35
by khhaven
Ha go me I fixed it somehow!!!

PostPosted: 20. October 2004 01:44
by khhaven
Now can someone tell me how to secure it so that no one besides me can acess my stuff like phpMyAdmin and so no one can mess with my MySql Database?

And thanks for the help people!

PostPosted: 20. October 2004 08:46
by Kristian Marcroft
Hi,

try reading the FAQ:
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/faq-xampp-windows.html

- How I can set a "root" password in MySQL?
- Everyone can use PHPMyAdmin from outside!

So long
KriS