From the course: Ethical Hacking: Hacking Web Servers and Web Applications
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Installing the WebGoat Server
From the course: Ethical Hacking: Hacking Web Servers and Web Applications
Installing the WebGoat Server
- [Instructor] Another very useful website for learning how to do web testing is the OWASP WebGoat. This is another website which has been deliberately created with vulnerabilities so that we can practice our web testing. We can download this directly, or you may prefer to use the WebGoat server within the web security dojo that we'll look at later in this course. I've created a directory for this, and I'll download it. This downloads as a jar file, and I've saved this in my WebGoat directory. I'll rename it to WebGoat.jar for simplicity. Let's go run it. This will load up the embedded Tomcat server and start WebGoat. We're now running on port 8080. I'll now point my browser at the WebGoat URL. Here we have the WebGoat login page, and we can see the two default accounts that come with it. Let's look in as guest. We're now in WebGoat, and we have the how to work with WebGoat page displayed. On the left are a series of…
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