Friday, August 02, 2013

HOWTO : Install DVWA on Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS

Step 1 :

Download DVWA.

wget https://github.com/RandomStorm/DVWA/archive/v1.0.8.zip

Step 2 :

Install essential packages if you do not install LAMP when installing the Ubuntu Server.

sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server php5 unzip php5-mysql php-pear*

* make sure you remember the root password of MySQL, e.g. dvwapass

Step 3 :

Extract DVWA.

sudo cp v1.0.8.zip /var/www/
unzip v1.0.8.zip


Step 4 :

sudo nano /var/www/DVWA/config/config.inc.php

Change the "db_password" to the captioned root password, e.g. dvwapass.

sudo nano /etc/apache2/conf.d/php.ini

change "allow_url_include = Off" to "allow_url_inclue = On".

sudo chmod -R 777 /var/www/DVWA/hackable/uploads/

Step 5 :

Create Database.

mysql -u root -p
create database dvwa;
quit


Step 6 :

Point your Firefox to "http://192.168.0.10/DVWA/setup.php" to create/reset database.

* where 192.168.0.10 is the IP address of the Ubuntu Server

Step 7 :

Then point your Firefox to "http://192.168.0.10/DVWA/index.php".

User name is "admin" and Password is "password".

That's all! See you.