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digininja committed Nov 8, 2024
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- `./hackable/uploads/` - Needs to be writeable by the web service (for File Upload).

### PHP configuration
### PHP Configuration

On Linux systems, likely found in `/etc/php/x.x/fpm/php.ini` or `/etc/php/x.x/apache2/php.ini`.

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- `http://localhost/mydir/Hello.txt`
- `http://localhost/MYDIR/hello.txt`

How does this affect DVWA? Most people use git to checkout DVWA into `/var/www/html`, this gives them the directory `/var/www/html/DVWA/` with all the DVWA files inside it. They then browse to `http://localhost/` and get either a `404` or the default Apache welcome page. As the files are in DVWA, you must browse to `http://localhost/DVWA`.
How does this affect DVWA? Most people use git to clone DVWA into `/var/www/html`, this gives them the directory `/var/www/html/DVWA/` with all the DVWA files inside it. They then browse to `http://localhost/` and get either a `404` or the default Apache welcome page. As the files are in DVWA, you must browse to `http://localhost/DVWA`.

The other common mistake is to browse to `http://localhost/dvwa` which will give a `404` because `dvwa` is not `DVWA` as far as Linux directory matching is concerned.

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