Amateur xampp question?

Question

After starting xampp, Spyware Doctor started going nuts. It alerted me that the Apache.exe server/file was trying to secure access between my computer and another computer. Is this normal? I thought I would be working with the program offline...sorta.

Answer 1

Officially, XAMPP's designers intended it for use only as a development tool, to allow website designers and programmers to test their work on their own computers without any access to the Internet. To make this as easy as possible, many important security features are disabled by default.[1] In practice, however, XAMPP is sometimes used to actually serve web pages on the World Wide Web. A special tool is provided to password-protect the most important parts of the package.



XAMPP also provides support for creating and manipulating databases in MySQL and SQLite among others.

Answer 2

xampp is a full blown web and database server program. They are set up to immediately start serving pages to the internet. Depending on how your router/firewall is set up, xampp will answer any internet requests. To work with the program offline you will have to edit httpd.conf and edit that to not answer requests for port 80 or disconnect your computer from the internet when you use it.

You will still initially get your computers firewall asking if application X can connect to the internet but if you tell the firewall to remember your choice then that won't last too long.

Answer 3

Yup it's VERY normal and every Windows user will encountered those warning. It came out because the apache server need to access one of the port, and the spyware doctor or any firewall will stop it from happening. But you know that apache server was can be trust.



just relax, and allow it to access your port

Answer 4

Is normal. What you need to do thou, is that you have to make sure a password is set for you database, because at this point anyone can alter it.

Answer 5

don't worry that's perfectly normal.