Topic: Want to limit traffic only to my network

[newyawkah]

After spending 2 days trying to get a WAMP setup to run wordpress, the very first thing I see in my wordpress dashboard are dozens of hacking attempts. I want to restrict apache to run as a web server only on my immediate network.

Is it as simple as just blocking port 80 on my router? Would this mess up my regular web browsing? Is there a better way to do it? Basically the only ip addresses apache should serve to is localhost and 192.168.1.x

But i'm concerned that if I create a rule like deny all except for x,y,z then the outside world still knows i am running a web server and can try to hack it. I want it to work silently within my network only.

Thanks in advance

[glsmith]

Close the port in the router, will not affect browsing. You had it closed at one point (I know of no router with any ports forwarded out of the box), were you able to browse?

[newyawkah]

Hmm I'm confused. I started my Apache server then went to http://canyouseeme.org/ to see if port 80 was open and it says it isnt.

I dont know if you use wordpress but my dashboard has a section called "incoming links" that within a few minutes of creating my local site was filled with stuff like this:

Dra3Q linked here saying, "$rss = str_replace("http://localhost","",$rss); $i ..."

杜宏雷 linked here saying, "4 new XElement("link","http://localhost"), // 页面链接 ..."

How are these people reaching my wordpress site otherwise?