Posted by Chuck Anderson on 05/01/07 19:51

Speaking of running a web server on a PC ... I manually installed
Apache, Php and MySQL on my Windows XP PC a couple of years ago and have
written many server/browser based apps in Php. Now I would like to
install some form of WAMP (perhaps one of the integrated packages) on a
friends machine so he can use apps I have created for him on his home
office PC.

I can not remember what prevents his (or my) server from being reachable
by others on the Internet, and I want to be sure exactly how that
security works before I install a server on his machine. What is it that
prevents (how do I prevent) outside access? (He and I are both on
comcast, btw - always on).

Thanks in Advance,

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Chuck Anderson • Boulder, CO
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