No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is apachefriends.org legit or a scam?
Official 24-year-old site for the XAMPP Apache stack with clean scans and community confirmation as the real project page.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page presents itself as the home of Apache Friends and the XAMPP installer package. Domain registration dates back 8804 days with no privacy masking. Zero engines in our antivirus network raised flags and browser blocklists returned clean. Independent sources including Wikipedia, SourceForge, and Reddit threads consistently identify the site as the official project. Mixed independent review aggregator reviews and a modest IP abuse score exist but do not override the long history and lack of clone indicators.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for apachefriends.org, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Official website for XAMPP project per Wikipedia, SourceForge, and multiple Reddit/Hacker News references.
- Domain apachefriends.org registered over 24 years ago (per given age and WHOIS mentions).
- Apache Friends described as non-profit project to promote Apache web server; XAMPP open-source stack with MariaDB, PHP, Perl.
- Active GitHub organization (apachefriends) with repositories for XAMPP installers and static site.
- Trustpilot score 2.6/5 based on 5 reviews; Scamadviser notes mixed reviews but likely legit.
- Community links include forums, Facebook, Twitter (@apachefriends); recent releases documented on site.
- No evidence of typosquatting or cloning of major brands; domain matches project branding exactly.
- Redditopen
"According to that page, the official website is https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html. Whatever warnings you're getting are probably false positives."
Our research found two mentions on review platforms noting mixed feedback yet leaning toward legitimate. independent review aggregator shows a 2.6/5 score from five reviews. Reddit users point to the site as the official XAMPP location. Five complaints were recorded but no widespread scam reports surfaced. The project is described as a long-running non-profit volunteer effort without formal business registration.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 4 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://apachefriends.org/
- 2200https://www.apachefriends.org/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on apachefriends.org and not a lookalike like a-pachefriends.org.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on apachefriends.org. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- apachefriends.org passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 77/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. apachefriends.org presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, expiring in 47 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- apachefriends.org is 24.1 years old, registered on 4/28/2002 through Cloudflare, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report apachefriends.org as clean.
- No. apachefriends.org is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- apachefriends.org resolves to an IP operated by GitHub, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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