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Installing XAMPP

1. Download XAMPP from Here.
2. Run the installer, and choose the location where XAMPP will be installed.
   (For Vista users with UAC enabled, it is recommended that you install XAMPP in “C:\xampp\” directory instead of “C:\Program Files\xampp\” because the UAC will prevent the write privilages of XAMPP if it is installed in Program Files.)
   

   Selecting Install Location

3. In the next step, you’ll be asked for the services to be installed. Select to install Apache & MySQL as services. If you want to use FTP, then select the option for FTP too…
   

   Selecting Servces to Install

4. Click the “Install” button and wait for the installation to be done. After the installation ends, XAMPP would automatically start the Apache server and PHPmyAdmin, if you are installing it using the Installer.
5. Run the “XAMPP Control Panel” and start the services Apache HTTP Server & PHP.
   

   XAMPP Control Panel

The address of the Local Web Server is “localhost” or “127.0.0.1“. Go to the address of the Local Web Server using your favorite web browser. Then select language “English”, you will get a welcome message informing that XAMPP is installed properly.

You can see the menu on the left. Using that sidebar you can see the Status, Demos, and access other tools. Click on “Status”, there you can see what services are running on XAMPP.

Securing your Local Web Server

XAMPP is not much secure and the developers ddin’t feel the need to make it secure because XAMPP was developed to be used by the Web Developers and provide the Web Developers with the maximum features. And making XAMPP secure would restrict certain features to the Web Developers. The Local Server which you have installed using XAMPP is accessible to everyone who’s there in your LAN & to the one knows your IP Address.

If you plan to use XAMPP for serving dynamic pages over the Web, you have to make sure that it is totally secured. Here are the ways to make your XAMPP secure:

1. Go to “127.0.0.1″ or “localhost” through your favorite browser (mine is Firefox).
2. Click on “Security” on the left sidebar. This should pop-up a “Security” window.
   

   Selecting "Security" from the Sidebar

3. Using the “Security” menu, you can set passwords for MySQL superuser “root” and also for PHPmyAdmin.
4. After you have done creating passwords, visit back the “Security” page, you can see your security status over there.
   

   Checking Security Status

5. Your XAMPP is now secured.

Using XAMPP for Serving Dynamic Pages

Now, your XAMPP server is ready-to-use. What you have to do is, enable the required services, get add-ons if needed and put the files that you need to work with in the “htdocs” folder in the XAMPP installation directory.

Some Basic Info

Here’s some basic info that you should know about XAMPP:

• Address of your Local WebServer: http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1
• Address to access your PHPmyAdmin: http://localhost/phpmyadmin/
• Directory for Placing your Scripts: C:\xampp\htdocs
  
• Database Server: localhost
• Database SuperUser: root
• PHP Configuration File:  C:\xampp\php\php.ini

My Story

I came to know about XAMPP through a friend of mine, who is a Web Developer. He insisted me to use XAMPP for testing PHP scripts and trying out new things on Hacker’s Lane, on the Local Web Server. At first I thought it would be a mess and I won’t be able to install a Local Web Server for developing things. Later I realized that it was a very easy job to install a Web Server using XAMPP & now, I am using XAMPP and I’ve to say, its Awesome!

What is XAMPP?

XAMPP is a free, open source , cross-platform web server package develped by Apache Friends. It mainly consists of Apache Web (HTTP) Server & MySQL Database. XAMPP also supports PHP and Perl, it has interpreters for scripts written in those languages.

What does XAMPP mean?

XAMPP is an acronym for: X=cross-platform, A=Apache HTTP server, M=MySQL, P=PHP, P=Perl.

What are its uses?

It’s used to serve Dynamic Pages. XAMPP is mainly used for Web Development Projects. Amazingly, XAMPP is sometimes also used to serve Dynamic Pages on the WWW.

XAMPP can also be used for creating and manipulating MySQL Databases.

Thats it for now, in my further posts, I would be posting on how to install, configure and use XAMPP as a Local Web Server on your PC. (Subscribe to RSS to be informed about the upcoming posts…)

This could really become freaking if you type some good messages over there…I had written in the message that “Your computer is hacked by HacK_MiNDeD…Crash Computer?” and the title “Critical Error”….

I tried it by sending to someone on yahoo as “hackingtools.vbs”…that guy really thought that I had hacked him…he started shouting and even told me that he would report it to his ISP…
LoL

Script 2: Dancing CD-ROM
Freak Title?…Can you imagine CD-ROM dancing in its own Style….I mean Coming out and going in!! [:)]
The Code:(Save it as “something.vbs”)

Set oWMP = CreateObject(“WMPlayer.OCX.7″ )
Set colCDROMs = oWMP.cdromCollection
if colCDROMs.Count >= 1 then
do
For i = 0 to colCDROMs.Count – 1
colCDROMs.Item(i).Eject
Next ‘ cdrom
For i = 0 to colCDROMs.Count – 1
colCDROMs.Item(i).Eject
Next ‘ cdrom
loop
End If
The only way to stop the CD-ROM from doing all it is…
Goto Task Manger (Ctrl + Alt + Del) and in the ‘processes’ tab, find “wscript.exe” and end/kill/close it!

Script 3: Type, Type & Type!
This script keeps on typing the message you write over there….as if you’ll be controlling his Keyboard…
Really messy script…
Set wshShell = wscript.CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)
do
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys “Your Mess-age here!”
loop
Did you notice that the last two projects contain the command “loop” in the last line?
I’ll explain now what ‘loop’ is…
Oh well..The command loop tells the computer to repeat the same command untilll..(you specify it to)
And as you can notice, we didn’t specify anything/case so it goes on repeating!
Have Fun…!