Is it risky to open up port 80?
Posted by: LPent (88.236.76.---)
Date: May 01, 2011 11:32PM

Recently some people need to be able to view my progress on my local WAMP from across the world. So I opened up port 80 in Windows 7 firewall and opened it up in my router and set up an account on dyndns. It works perfectly, but I was wondering what risk this involves?

Does this mean that someone can get access to my local folders and files (outside of my WAMP) somehow? Is there some way I can set up a warning when someone accesses port 80?

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Re: Is it risky to open up port 80?
Posted by: yfastud (Moderator)
Date: May 02, 2011 05:34AM

No, only www folder or the specific folder setup in VH

No matter within or outside LAN access, you need to setup Access, DNS, and VH; Access for permission to connect to your Wamp PC, DNS to tie Domain(s) to your Wamp PC, and VH to host multiple Domains/Websites/IP's and even you have only 1 Domain/IP, you should use VH to set it up w/ the site you want to show up first on top and localhost on bottom and others in middle if having more than 1 site; w/ VH, other PC's, no matter w/i or outside LAN, can access/see websites/contents on your wamp PC. If dont have real Domain, just skip DNS guide

To setup Access, follow this
[blog.jlbn.net]

To setup VH, follow this
[blog.jlbn.net]

To setup DNS, follow this
[blog.jlbn.net]

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Re: Is it risky to open up port 80?
Posted by: LPent (88.236.76.---)
Date: May 02, 2011 09:24AM

Thnak you.

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