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kr4z
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 1:29 pm 
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pclissold wrote:
It's not suitable for putting on a machine that's connected to the Internet - one mistake with the firewall and you're hacked for sure - and you're probably a goner anyway - it's got PHP in it without much attention to security.


As well, normal distribution packages get updated whenever a security hole is found. This wouldn't happen with xampp, you'd be left with an old insecure version. This is something you definitely do not want with apache/php, etc., as they are likely the most frequently targeted part of your system.
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anderiv
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Here's a quote from the XAMPP website that should help clarify this:
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The philosophy behind XAMPP is to build an easy to install distribution for developers to get into the world of Apache. To make it convenient for developers XAMPP is configured with all features turned on.

The default configuration is not good from a securtiy point of view and it's not secure enough for a production environment - please don't use XAMPP in such environment.

...xampp's main goal is to make an easy to install LAMP(P) development environment for php/perl developers. As others have mentioned, they keep security very lax as to not hinder development.
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pclissold
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Yes, kr4z, I didn't think of that. The intended usage is:
  • install in a secure environment
  • do some testing
  • uninstall it

Their website makes a big deal of how easy it is to uninstall.

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