WampServer
Apache, PHP, MySQL
on Windows
Re: What would go here?
Posted by:
toivo
(---.nsw.bigpond.net.au)
Date: March 20, 2008 10:40PM
You can run as many domains on WAMP as you want because Apache supports virtual hosts. As long as you know what your IP address is (even if it is dynamic, you can get DNS support from [dyndns.org] and [no-ip.com]) and organise the company hosting your DNS records to point the domain(s) to your IP address.
Then you need to forward incoming TCP port 80 packets or HTTP requests from your firewall to the internal IP address of your WAMP server. Assuming that the servername in one of the virtual host entries matches the domain name in the request, you are in business.
In addition to development and intranet server, WAMP is also being used to host websites accessible from the internet. The reason you see recommendations to use it for development only is that it is thought, often quite correctly, that beginners, to whom WAMP is very appealing as a one-stop webserver, may overlook important security precautions like having a firewall that supports DMZ, prevention of SQL injection and mail injection attacks and such like.
Regards,
toivo
Sydney, Australia
Then you need to forward incoming TCP port 80 packets or HTTP requests from your firewall to the internal IP address of your WAMP server. Assuming that the servername in one of the virtual host entries matches the domain name in the request, you are in business.
In addition to development and intranet server, WAMP is also being used to host websites accessible from the internet. The reason you see recommendations to use it for development only is that it is thought, often quite correctly, that beginners, to whom WAMP is very appealing as a one-stop webserver, may overlook important security precautions like having a firewall that supports DMZ, prevention of SQL injection and mail injection attacks and such like.
Regards,
toivo
Sydney, Australia
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