Installing DVWA Application in Kali Linux-

Installing DVWA Application in Kali Linux-

Kali Version-
Linux kali 4.19.0-kali1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.13-1kali1 (2019-01-03) x86_64 GNU/Linux

# cd /var/www/html
# wget https://github.com/RandomStorm/DVWA/archive/v1.9.zip && unzip v1.9.zip
# mv DVWA-1.9 /var/www/html/dvwa

Set the writing permission for execution to the folder.
# chmod -R 777 dvwa

Server Configuration-
# service mysql start
# mysql -u root -p
mysql > create database dvwa;
mysql > CREATE USER 'user'@'127.0.0.1' IDENTIFIED BY 'p@ssword';
mysql > grant all on dvwa.* to 'user'@'127.0.0.1';
mysql > flush privileges;
mysql > exit
# service mysql stop

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With kali MariaDB do the following-
Note, if you are using MariaDB rather than MySQL (MariaDB is default in Kali), then you can't use the database root user, you must create a new database user. To do this, connect to the database as the root user then use the following commands:

mysql> create database dvwa;
mysql> grant all on dvwa.* to dvwa@localhost identified by 'SuperSecretPassword99';
mysql> flush privileges;
mysql > exit
# service mysql stop

You will then need to update the config file, the new entries will look like this:
$_DVWA[ 'db_user' ] = 'dvwa';
$_DVWA[ 'db_password' ] = 'SuperSecretPassword99';
$_DVWA[ 'db_database' ] = 'dvwa';
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For php-gd module problem in kali linux i then logged in and installed these:
 $apt-get install vim apache2 php7.3
 $apt-get install mariadb-server mariadb-client php7.3-mysql php7.3-gd
 $apt-get install git
Add user and password of the mysql database, and the keys from below. And Keys for captcha needs to be generated from Google service, so go here , login with your Google account and copy the two keys (public and private).
# gedit /var/www/html/dvwa/config/config.inc.php

Open Below-
# gpedit /etc/php/7.3/apache2/php.ini
Jump to the line 821 and enable the allow_url_include. This is necessary to exploit the file upload vulnerability.

You’re done Your DVWA is correctly setted and can now be started.
# service apache2 stop && service mysql stop
# service apache2 restart && service mysql restart
# service apache2 start && service mysql start
# firefox http://127.0.0.1/dvwa/setup.php
Click->Create/Reset Database->login->set DVWA Security->Set Levels.


Setup-