Hi Guyz.

A while Back i Thought to Creat Hacking Articles, but Now i just Realized that it would be better For You to Make a Lab for Testing and Learning Pentesting.

So I'm Here with Article How to Setup Your DvWa Pentesting Lab.

DvWa - Damn vulnerable WebApps

This is a bunch of Pages which Damn Vulnerable and is best Plate Form to Learn Pentesting for Beginners.

So What You Guyz Have to do to Setup DvWa. Lets Start

I've Divided it in Two Categories.

1. For Windows Users.


  • Download XMPP Server 
  • download DvWa Lab 
  • Install Xmpp server On Windows
  • Copy 'DvWa' folder in "C:\xampp\htdocs"
  • Now Start Xampp Control Panel and Start "Apache" and "MySql" Services.
  • Now open Your Favourite Browser and goto
     "C:\xampp\htdocs"
 http://localhost
  • choose DvWa Folder and You'll see Login Page.
  • Simply Login with "User = Admin" & "Pass = Password"
  • Now You'r Done and in DvWa Lab
  • Learn and Do Your Best :)

2. For Linux Users.

  •  Download DvWa Lab From Above Link
  • Extract it and Copy it in "/var/www" Folder
  • Open a Terminal and Type
 service mysql start && service apache2 start
  • Now open up Your Favourite Browser and Just goto 
 http://localhost
  • and do Same as Above :)

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This Post Is Written By Muhammad Adeel , He is a Security Researcher And Programmer Of C++,C,Python,Ruby,HTML and A Bit More ;)

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