Mutillidae installation

I'm assuming that you have already downloaded Mutillidae, as instructed previously in this chapter. Extract the compressed archive file, copy the mutillidae folder, and paste it into the C:\xamp\htdocs folder.

In order to access the Mutillidae site from the intranet, we will need to adjust the configuration file, .htaccess. Open the Mutillidae folder that you just copied, and the .htaccess file will be inside (use Notepad to open it):

Since my network IP address range is 10.0.0.0/24, I will add the line Allow from 10. in the allow section:

Open your browser and go to http://[your machine IP]/mutillidae. After the page loads, click on the setup/reset the DB link, and Mutillidae will install. If everything is good, you will be told that no errors were detected when resetting the database.

Finally! The installation of Mutillidae is complete:

Check this out! We have a Mutillidae home page up and running, and it's screaming, Hack me, please: