Treat this environment as a sandbox for local coding only. Never open port 80 on your router to expose this installation to the internet.
Developers sometimes install this version alongside a modern one to test projects across different PHP versions. To do this, you must change the default Apache port (e.g., from 80 to 8080) to avoid conflicts. GeeksforGeeks Installation Tips Administrative Rights: xampp-win32-1.8.2-6-vc9-installer.exe