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XAMPP on Windows

  1. start your windows VM

  2. Install XAMPP

    1. https://www.apachefriends.orgarrow-up-right

XAMPP is a free, cross-platform software package that bundles together an Apache web server, MariaDB (a database), and interpreters for PHP and Perl, allowing users to create a local development environment to test and debug web applications without needing an internet connection or a remote server.

  1. Do the following options for set up:

    1. UAC warning = OK

    2. Select compnents: Apache, MySQL, PHP, phpMyAdmin only

  2. Start XAMPP Control Panel

  1. Start MySQL and Apache

  1. Open a browser and type http://localhost

    1. You should see the XAMPP default web page!

  2. Navigate to the folder c:\xampp\htdocs (default files of XAMPP are here)

  3. Delete all the files!

  1. create a file called index.html

    1. Check the option file name extensoins on file explorer

  1. Input the following in index.html

    1. make html files for each of your 3 pages

  1. Use your IP address or localhost (mine is 10.0.17.37 ) to access the website and you should see what you created in your index.html file.

  1. Create some 404 errors by trying to access pages that don't exist

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Inspecting Apache Logs

  1. Start your Windows PowerShell ISE as Administrator

  2. Navigate to the apache logs folder of your XAMPP from blue part of your PowerShell ISE:

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List all apache logs of XAMPP:

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List the last 5 logs of XAMPP

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Display only logs that contain 404 (Not Found) or 400 (Bad Request)

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You will see above that there are spaces between the quotes and the status code. This indicates the regex pattern "\b(404|400)\b" to exactly match 404 and 400 status codes without catching other 40x errors like 401, 403, etc.

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Display only logs that does NOT contain 200 (OK)

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From every file with .log extension in the directory, only get logs that contain the word 'error'

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Display only IP addresses for 404 (Not Found) records

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Count $ips from Number 8

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