Comments on: How to set up your own server using XAMPP

By: Alok Swain

Alok Swain — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:37:20 +0000

Hi,
I’ve started using XAMPP recently for PHP/MySQL. I want to set up a Mail Server using XAMPP. I tried using mercury and sending mail from admin@localhost to admin@localhost and got a mail successfully sent alert. But I could not find the sent mail stored in the XAMPP directory(the files where the sent mail is stored, mentioned in XAMPP docs). Please suggest if any other changes are to be made. I use Windows Vista and Apache, MySQL have been running perfectly fine.

By: Keith Davis

Keith Davis — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 14:44:41 +0000

Lots of tutorials out there about using using XAMPP as a local server, but this is the first one I’ve found that mentions security.

Good use of screenshots to explain the text and lots of security info… I’ll start reading now.

By: chlankboot

chlankboot — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:27:17 +0000

Btw,
Does anybody know if the access to apache service under windows server (2003 in my case), does it depend on OS licences, i.e : if i have 10 windows licences are users to the local website limited to 10?
Thanks for the nice post.

By: chlankboot

chlankboot — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:15:56 +0000

@Hey Alexander,
- Tip 1: Go to xampp\apache\conf\extra and edit the file httpd-xampp.conf, There you’ll find the access policy for many resources.
- Tip 2: If you have an old version of xampp, probably you’ll find it using (localhost) replace it with 127.0.0.1 (this solves half of the problems)
- Tip 3: Check out where there is “Deny from all” and add another line with the IP of the computer you want to grant access like : “Allow from 10.120.120.10″
Hope this helps.

@mohd nasrul:
Yes, just create a folder under htdocs let’s say “myfuturesite” and access it with http://XX.XX.XX.XX/myfuturesite, for mysql databases just use phpmyadmin

Hope this helps.

By: mohd nasrul

mohd nasrul — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:39:15 +0000

ai, i’m trying to connect my page using another computer. I put(http://mycomputerip/xampp) and load the xampp main page from another pc successfully. This is the main page of xampp. i want to open my main page in another pc so i can enter all information from there to the database in my server side pc. is this can happen somehow?

By: Alexander

Alexander — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:38:45 +0000

Hey, Good Instructions but, My Security Says : FORBIDDEN FOR CLIENT ( Local Host ) , I But ( local Host ) Cause thats where my ip is, dunno what happened?

By: beny 75

beny 75 — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:59:29 +0000

There is XAMPP package developed for Linux systems.
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html
There is also an installation manual on the site but it’s a good idea first to check your distribution repositories if they contain XAMPP.You can do that by package manager installed on your system.

By: basic

basic — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:58:08 +0000

Hi! I just installed linux on my pc and I wonder whether this package could be installed on my linux.