The original post: /r/php by /u/Consistent-Age5347 on 2024-10-11 08:44:06.

Hi, I just bought a Windows VPS server but I don’t have that much of knowledge to configure the IIS webserver, So i did a simple approach, I installed XAMPP and stored my project files into it’s directory.

And then finally I opened the port 80 through Windows firewall, So it’s accessible on all networks, And for HTTPS, I used cloudfalre proxy thing.

• PS I know that even XAMPP software itself shows some warnings that it should be used for testing/development environments only, And it’s not good for actual hosting.

But I wanna know how much this statement is true? Like is XAMPP’s webserver really vulnerable to attacks? Or is it more of simple warning and I can ignore it?

So yeah basically, Is it OK for actual hosting or it lacks important security patches and stuff?

Update: Is caddy good then?