I have setup xampp local server  with MySql on my Windows 7 machine. Basically this was to setup a wordpress blog on localhost to test features before rolling out here on this live blog. My machine has McAfee Antivirus protection which also handles firewall. Everything was working fine until one day I saw a McAfee notification about xampp.exe. Which stated three options “Allow Always”, “Allow Once” and “Block”. I thought it might be security risk to allow internet connection to connect with xampp. So I blocked xampp.exe. And problem begun.

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