Re: Newbie question about XAMPP

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From	Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de>
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Am 27.10.2013 11:48, schrieb Robert Crandal:

> I was looking for an offline environment to play with
> PHP and MySQL, so I chose XAMPP version 1.8.2.

Apache, MySQL and PHP are also available as regular packages.
Configuring Apache to be able to serve PHP is also well documented, also
for Windows:

<http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.manual.php>
<http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.apache2.php>

Maybe it's worth a try for you and you would learn how all the
components work together and also the differences between PHP as an
Apache module or PHP as CGI.

> 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.

Depending on the version the Windows firewall usually just asks if you
want to allow access to services as soon as they create listening
sockets for the first time - it does not matter if the services really
*need* this or not. It should be save to block any access from "outside"
to MySQL or Apache.

Of course it would be also wise not to allow external access within the
configuration of MySQL and Apache (e.g. only allow access from localhost
or don't bind anything else than the loopback device etc.).


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Arno Welzel
http://arnowelzel.de
http://de-rec-fahrrad.de

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Newbie question about XAMPP "Robert Crandal" <rcranz143101@gmail.com> - 2013-10-27 03:48 -0700
  Re: Newbie question about XAMPP "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2013-10-27 12:48 +0100
    Re: Newbie question about XAMPP Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-10-27 10:00 -0400
  Re: Newbie question about XAMPP Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2013-10-28 19:59 +0100

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