Setting up the Web Server ( XAMPP )

Installing XAMPP and Configuring Apache

• Copy XAMPP directory in its entirety
• Edit httpd.conf
• Set Apache Server path

• Listen 81

• Set ServerName localhost:81

• Set Document Root

• Set Directory for htdocs (a.k.a. point to site’s root )

• httpd-xampp.conf

#

# 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/XAMPP_FORBIDDEN.html.var

</LocationMatch>

• Run setup_xampp.bat
• This will re-write all the server config files to utilize D:\xampp\apache\bin\httpd.exe
• Run xampp-control.exe

XAMPP Control Panel

XAMPP Config and Logs

Windows Firewall

Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Windows Firewall

• Turn off the Firewall until you get a response from apache

• Once a response is received, enable the Firewall for Public and Private networks
• Allow a program or feature through Windows Firewall…

• Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Windows Firewall\Allowed Programs

Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Windows Firewall\Allowed Programs

• Allow Apache HTTP Server on Home/Work and/or Public networks
• When starting

• When starting Apache or FileZillaFTP, Windows may prompt to allow the program through the Firewall

• To make the setting manually, click ‘Allow another program…
• Browse to xampp\filezillftp\filezillaserver.exe
• Enable for the appropriate networks

• Browsing to the FileZillaServer file

• Windows Firewall > Advanced Settings > Inbound Rules