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How to install DVWA in linux



Damn Vulnerable Web App (DVWA) is a PHP/MySQL based web application tool which is called damn vulnerable web application.Its mainly build for security professionals or reasearcher to test their skills and tools in a legal environment(DVWA) and it also help web developers better understand the processes of securing web applications,web applications vulnerability and learn web application security and different types of web application vulnerability.Now i will show you how to install DVWA in linux.So lets start,

For installing dvwa some steps will be needed to followed:

1.First download dvwa from this website:
Download 

2.Then go to Download folder and find your downloaded file.After finding it you will see this folder is a zip file so now you should be extracted it.Then you rename it or not.





3.Then goto computer(which is your system folder) -> var -> www -> html and paste the folder which name is DVWA or your selected name.


4.Now i want to give permission to this file(DVWA).So now open terminal and type:
chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/DVWA(or your selected name)




5.Then need to open mysql server so open terminal and type :
    > service mysql start
    Then type:
    > mysql -u root -h localhost -p

    -u(user) 
    root(username)
    -h(hostname)
    -p(password)(type your mysql password or if you already set any password for mysql then enter your enter key :D)

Change mysql Password?

6.Goto dvwa config folder and remove password like db_password = ' ';






7.Create a database name dvwa on mysql so type :
 > create database dvwa;
 create database named dvwa.






8.Now open terminal and type:
  > service apache2 start 
 and open browser and type
 localhost/DVWA or 127.0.0.1/DVWA(actually your file name)

9.You will see login page.
  Default Username : admin and Password : password.




Now use it :D

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