DVWA Setup apache Linux Server

How to setup DVWA vulnerable web app with the custom database in apache Linux server

DVWA is a DAMM VULNERABLE WEB APP coded in PHP/MYSQL. Seriously it is too vulnerable. In this app security professionals, ethical hackers test their skills and run these tools in a legal environment. The aim of DVWA is to practice some of the most common web vulnerability, with various difficulties levels DVWA Setup apache

Download DVWA Vulnerable web here www.dvwa.co.uk

Download DVWA with wget command

cd /tmp

wget https://github.com/ethicalhack3r/DVWA/archive/master.zip

After downloading complete the file I extract the file destination our default apache server directory

unzip master.zip -d /var/www/html

change permission Directory (-R mean Recursively DVWA inside all file)

• root: read, write, executable
• group: read, executable
• other: read, executable

chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/DVWA-master/ 

Changing Ownership of Directory (-R mean Recursively DVWA inside all file)

• user: www-data
• group: www-data

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/DVWA-master/

Creating a new database for our DVWA WEB App

mysql -u root -p

Create a database name for our data

create database databasename;

Creating a database user and password

create user 'username'@'localhost' identified by 'password';

granting permission and creating a password

grant all on databasename.* to 'username'@'localhost' identified by 'password' with grant option;

Flush all privilege

flush privileges;

exit

After creating our database we configure our DVWA database file I change our directory config folder

cd /var/www/html/DVWA-master/config/

Rename config file with mv command

mv config.inc.php.dist config.inc.php

Edit DVWA database config file I use VIM editor you use your favorite editor

vi config.inc.php

$_DVWA[ 'db_server' ] = 'localhost' ;
$_DVWA[ 'db_database' ] = 'database name' ;
$_DVWA[ 'db_user' ] = 'dvwauser' ;
$_DVWA[ 'db_password' ] = 'password' ;

starting our MySQL and apache server

service mysql start

service apache2 start

now open your browser and type your IP address and DVWA file name and login with the default username and password

http://localhost/DVWA-master/login.php

username: admin
password: password

we see our setup is almost complete last step is to create a reset database

create/ Reset Database

Again login with default logging username and password and your DVWA is full setup success

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