Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "J.O. Aho" Newsgroups: comp.lang.php Subject: Re: Newbie question about XAMPP Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 12:48:02 +0100 Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <6MadnYHuG4-rcvHPnZ2dnUVZ5hidnZ2d@giganews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net L5vUzoG49aOeWrpMxmhXIQqV33Jaf8Z9z8UdbvRgfe3mGyj2eq Cancel-Lock: sha1:l153n5Bd+X69I7UgEqmRbrory4w= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 In-Reply-To: <6MadnYHuG4-rcvHPnZ2dnUVZ5hidnZ2d@giganews.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.php:11593 On 27/10/13 11:48, Robert Crandal wrote: > I was looking for an offline environment to play with > PHP and MySQL, so I chose XAMPP version 1.8.2. > > If XAMPP is supposed to be able to run offline, why > did it need an Internet connection when it came time > to setup my "root" password the phpAdmin and > MySQL setup??? I'm just curious. Thank you. Never used XAMPP as I use an OS which do come with AMPP as system packages and those don't need to download 3rd party packages which may do things the wrong way nor relay on an OS which force you to do things in a bad way, but I guess it detected that you had an external IP and used it to direct you to the newly installed phpmyadmin. -- //Aho