Xampp server

Andy Melton's XAMPP Server Installation Tutorial
XAMPP Server Finally, after the Thanksgiving holiday I am able to sit down and start this blog article. In this one I want to go through the steps that are involved in setting up your own web server. This web server will be one that you can actually use to host a real world website or you can use it for testing your website or application offline.What is XAMPP? I decided that the quickest way to get you up and running with your own web server would be to use Apache Friend's XAMPP. XAMPP is an application that combines Apache (the web server), MySQL (database), PHP (scripting language) and phpMyAdmin (database administration) all into one. Normally, to set up a web server you'd have to install each of those individually. With XAMPP, youinstall one application and you have a fully functional server. Now, you're probably thinking, “Well, if it's that easy then why is this blog entry HUGE!?” Well. The reason this is a large entry is I am going to walk you through all the steps of setting up XAMPP AND make sure that you set it up so that it is secure! The default XAMPP installation is meant for developers on a local network, not for areal world installation, however, there are ways of making the installation secure and ready for real world use. Also, there are a few other things we'll need to do other than installing XAMPP to get things going. Installing on Fedora Core 5 There are many distributions of Linux out there, my distribution of choice is Fedora Core. I prefer it because I've always had the most luck with it and havefriends who use it. The steps contained within this article could be easily applied to Ubuntu or another distribution. You may also be asking me why I am going to install this using an outdated version of Fedora. The main reason for this is that I have not had the time to sit down and do an install of XAMPP and all the other needed applications on Fedora Core 6 to make sure everything works. Iknow it works with Fedora Core 5 and 6 is still a little buggy. Maybe next year when 7 comes out I'll update this article for installing it on 6! Requirements
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Fedora Core 5 ISO/CD/DVD VMware Server or Dedicated hardware for installing Public IP address of your DSL/Cable Internet connection

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Setting up a virtual machine to install Fedora on I am going to install Fedora into a virtual machine using VMware Server. It's a free virtualization product from VMware. If you've got an old machine laying around then this would be a great project for you to be able to revive that old piece of hardware, however, I'm using VMware Server because I can takescreenshots of the installation process and I also don't have a spare computer laying around!

After you have downloaded and installed VMware Server, the first thing you'll do is open up the application. It will ask you whether you want to open up a virtual machine on your local host or a remote host. We'll choose local.

Now, we need to set up a virtual machine. Click on “New Virtual Machine”We need to choose the “Custom” field here because we need to make additional changes in the configuration rather than using the defaults.

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Next we choose the guest operating system. We are of course going to choose “Linux” here.

Since VMware does not diplay Fedora Core as a version, we are going tochoose “Other Linux”. We'll re-name the files so that it has Fedora attached to all of them.

Where it says “Virtual Machine Name” enter “Fedora Core Linux”, you could simply enter “Fedora”, “XAMPP”, “Server”, whatever you like. If you need to change the location of the virtual machine, this is where you'll do it. I have mine on a separate partition that can store the large file that the virtual...