Week 7 Muddy Points

One much install Apache server and MySQL before installing Koha, but Apache
for Windows has firewall and security application issues that do not allow it to function.
The developers are looking into creating a bundled or integrated package installion but better instructions are needed to trouble shoot the background apps before one can move on to the installion of Koha. Is there a workaround to the firewall and security issues that a lay-person would understand?