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Intro to the DVWA - sunjester - 01-15-2019

Introduction
The Damn Vulnerable Web Application is to help pentesters and other security professionals test tools and harden skills or obtain skills they may not already have. This is a perfect tool to help beginners move forward into hacking. This software can help people to NOT have to build test areas for tools and teaching.

Download
https://github.com/ethicalhack3r/DVWA/archive/master.zip

Install
After downloading, unzip it into your web root and move into the directory. I renamed my directory to dvwa. The first thing you see is below:
Code:
DVWA System error - config file not found. Copy config/config.inc.php.dist to config/config.inc.php and configure to your environment.

So let's follow the directions..
Code:
(xenial)root@localhost:/var/www/html/dvwa# mv config/config.inc.php.dist config/config.inc.php

So now, when you reload the page you should see something that says we need to configure our database. We probably need to create a database as well.

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So let's open the config we renamed and fill the variables in, and then create our database, or vice versa.

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Next, click the reset/create database button at the bottom and you will be redirected to the login screen (if all went well).

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You can login with admin:password and you're ready to play

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RE: Intro to the DVWA - darkninja1980 - 01-30-2019

another great guide. thank you for posting it.