Hi,
I'm a bit of a newbie at this. I got a book SAMS Teach yourself PHP, MySQL and Apache All in one. Fixed up an old P3 600mhz, 256Mb RAM and 40GB HD Win98 and thought I would try and get a webserver going. After a few painful attempts I stumbled across XAMPP and thought it was fantastic. Everything in on package.
I got it all running but want to run it on the web. Should I do this? Are the security setting okay as default?
I found that I'm running mysql as odbc with no password. I can't seem to find any info about why this is the case. What's the most secure way to run mysql? I have set a root password, but when I tried to install a php forum and it asked for my sql user & password, but root didn't work? Should I even run this as root? If not how to I set up a new user and do I need that ODBC thing?
Hope someone can help. My book is useless. It seems to be all over the place, talking about linux one mo, windows the next, and didn't even discuss how to create a user, but did tell you have to assign privaliges (sp?) to one! Mad! Anyone know of any good books to help me along my way?
Naughty