You need to remove the line !–#echo var=”SERVER_SOFTWARE” –, including the closing brackets, to remove the server software information from the bottom of the error pages.

Just one thing — not sure when this changed, but I just installed XAMPP 1.6.5, and removing the .pl script from the cgi folder as you noted above does not remove the environment variables from the error pages. To do this, you have to look in \xampp\apache\error\include\bottom.html. Remove the following instructions from the 11th line:

which can be found before the closing tag.

I’m not sure which version of XAMPP changed the delivery of the error pages, but this will remove the software information from the bottom of the error pages, leaving only the website name and date.

Awesome guide! Really helpful!