Secure XAMPP: only local connections
Published 2011-03-25, 12:23
1) Open file xampp\apache\conf\httpd.conf and replace
Listen 80
with
Listen 127.0.0.1:80
2) Open file xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-ssl.conf and replace
Listen 443
with
Listen 127.0.0.1:443
3) Open file xampp\mysql\bin\my.cnf|.ini and put in
bind-address=localhost
directly after [mysqld] (NOT [mysql]!)