Securing AMPPS for local development

Securing AMPPS for local development (2 Replies, Read 2022 times)

matthijs	September 11, 2016, 1:22 pm
Group: Member Post Group: Newbie Posts: 7 Status:	Using Ampps for local development on a Mac, what are the things I need to pay attention to and why, to make it as secure as possible? I've read the wiki http://www.ampps.com/wiki/Security_Center but it doesn't tell me why those steps are needed. Or what else is needed. There's two concerns I can thinks of: 1) access from outside my computer. Since Ampps is a server, someone accessing my computer from outside could in theory try to hack into the local websites. But I don't know exactly when this could happen and what I need to do to prevent it from happening 2) running malicious code (accidentily) locally which could read data locally and sent it out. For example, if you want to prevent permission issues locally (say to be able to upload files in a website), you need to run Apache as the local user instead of www. The local user (me) has read access to all files on my mac. I know a bit about these issues but not enough. So I'm not looking for a simple "do this and that" but also for a -why- behind the steps needed.
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