Installing XAMPP and DVWA on BackTrack 5r3

What is DVWA? Damn Vulnerable Web App (DVWA) is a PHP/MySQL web application that is damn vulnerable. Its main goals are to be an aid for security professionals to test their skills and tools in a legal environment, help web developers better understand the processes of securing web applications and aid teachers/students to teach/learn web application security in a class room environment.

A step by step guide on how to install XAMPP and DVWA on BackTrack Linux. 

Before we begin, download the following:

> Xampp for Linux: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html#374

> DVWA: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvwa/

Once downloaded, put it into a folder in this case i created a folder in the Desktop called Tools. Then cd into the folder.

1. Provide write/modify access to the file

#chmod a+x xampp-linux-1.8.2-0-installer.run

2. Run the installation

#./xampp-linux-1.8.2-0-installer.run

Click Next 

And Finish once done

A default XAMPP website will launch. Close the browser.

Start the XAMPP services

#/opt/lampp/lampp start

Open up your browser and type in http://localhost/ . You will see the XAMPP page

We are done for XAMPP. Now let's proceed to do the DVWA

Unzip the file

#unzip DVWA-1.0.7.zip

Move the folder to /opt/lampp/htdocs

On your browser, type in http://localhost/dvwa

Click on 'here' to create the database

Database created

Go back to the http://localhost/dvwa and enter the default credentials

username: admin

password: password

And we have installed DVWA and XAMPP on LINUX

NOW YOU HAVE MY PERMISSION TO HACK!!!!!!!!!!!