Create SSL Websiteįor a site to use SSL we have to create a certificate first which has to be referenced in our Apache virtual host definition.
Restart your apache server and send your browser to . One more thing left to configure and that is the windows host file at c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts . Hosts that have an unknown ServerName (ie there is no virtualhost definition with this ServerName attribute) are served from this virtual host. The first virtualhost is the primary or default virtualhost. Inside this directroy create a document index.php with the following contents: ĭocumentRoot C:/xampp/htdocs/
In XAMPP sites are stored at c:\xampp\htdocs . If both Apache and MySQL are running you can go ahead and setup your first site. Next time you navigate to the phpMyadmin site phpMyAdmin will ask for a username and password. Next set a value of “cookie” for auth_type. Change the blowfish_secret to some random value not being xampp. To solve this open the phpMyadmin configuration file at c:\xampp\phpMyAdmin\ . Now phpMyAdmin will stop working because you just changed the root password.
Mysqladmin.exe –user=root –password= password newpwd To change the MySQL password execute the command: Change directory to c:\xampp\mysql\bin and execute the command: First thing todo is change your root password for the MySQL instance. To check if MySQL is up and running choose the phpMyAdmin link on the dashboard if everything is ok the phpMyAdmin dashboard shows up. ApacheĪfter installation navigate to If Apache is started the XAMPP dashboard is shown in your browser. PID(s) and Port(s) should show a number now indicating the services are listening at the ports shown.