WampServer

I'd like to open WAMP Server (on my home PC) to the outside for personal access to resources at home. No public access, except perhaps family, is intended.

I understand that WAMP it not wildly secure, so I don't want to have it widely available.

Would I be safer binding it so some obscure port (through port mapping on my broadband router and/or changing the port in Apache) or do the opportunists just scan every possible port anyway looking for a web server?

Hi,

The security of a server, whatever it is, is what YOU make.
If you do not have a good grasp of what the security of a server is, it would be better not to open it on the Internet.
We have seen very recently, with Apple Cloud, even professionals are hack.
Do not spend the entire server "Online" (1); Use the VirtualHost with restricted access and even request a password via a htaccess file.

(1) The next version of Wampserver will not have this option "Online/Offline" directly accessible from the main menu. This is an open door for hackers of the whole world. VirtualHosts allow, instead, to filter access wisely.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/03/2014 07:08PM by Otomatic.