hostfreak Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 Just curious, after I install WAMP, what are the security risks? If any at all? I am new to trying to run it on my own system, so please forgive my ignorance. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/66213-risks/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildteen88 Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 There will be no risks if you are installing for testing/development purposes when creating your PHP scripts. Unless you configure your router (if you have one) ans/or firewall to allow connections via the port Apache runs on (80 is the default). Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/66213-risks/#findComment-331208 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hostfreak Posted August 22, 2007 Author Share Posted August 22, 2007 Should I run it as "Online" or "Offline"? I am not sure it makes a difference? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/66213-risks/#findComment-331268 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildteen88 Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 Where is Online or Offline defined? I am not using WAMP so I don't know what you're referring to, however I do have used wamp before. I just prefer manuall install of Apache, PHP and MySQL myself. For now I guess Offline should do. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/66213-risks/#findComment-331269 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hostfreak Posted August 22, 2007 Author Share Posted August 22, 2007 The online option is when I go over the WAMP panel in the task bar. It works as "offline" so I will leave it as that. I considered a manual install, but read it would be a pain with no prior experience etc. So I opted for this, for now. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/66213-risks/#findComment-331406 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hypnos Posted August 25, 2007 Share Posted August 25, 2007 Offline = Only accessable from localhost. Online = Accessable from any interface. EDIT, to answer your question: MySQL will not allow remote connections by default. The only thing that it opens up is port 80. Many ISPs will block that for home connections. But yes, if apache gets a security hole found, and you have it Online, then you are at risk like the other servers, while it's running. Personally I don't keep WAMP running all of the time. Just when developing. And I normally leave it Offline. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/66213-risks/#findComment-334043 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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