I have installed XAMPP on Windows 10 for the local development and don't want my XAMPP installation to be accessible from the outside. I am reading How to make xampp secure and it says that the default configuration for the XAMPP is to make it available for the immediate use, i.e. it is accessible from the external web.
So - what configuration should I make to protect my XAMPP from external access.
As far as I understand, then the only thing that I should do is to block the external access to the ports the XAMPP is exposing? But what ports XAMPP exposes by default? I guess - it exposes HTTP/HTTPS ports only, my guess is that XAMPP does not expose MariaDB ports for the external use? I am totally confused. Or maybe there is some extensive list of ports to whom the external access should be blocked?
I have not started my XAMPP yet. It is quite possible that upon the start the Windows default firewall will ask me to to give/deny permission for XAMPP to communication in some kind of networks (local/private or public) and it can be the chance to automatically create all the necessary Firewall rules. But I don't know if this will happen and I am too afraid to risk.
So - are there any guidelines about Firwalls and use of XAMPP for internal/local development only?
