3 Basic Steps for Laravel Installation

Cerwyn Cahyono

Apr 19, 2020·2 min read

3 steps for Laravel installation:

1. Install XAMPP
2. Install Composer
3. Install Laravel

All the steps here are for Windows users

• Instal XAMPP

First, you need to install XAMPP. XAMPP is needed because we need all of the components inside XAMPP. This installation will give you PHP, PERL, MySQL/MariaDB, and of course Apache server. You can download XAMPP here.

MySQL was replaced with MariaDB on 2015–10–19 and beginning with XAMPP versions 5.5.30 and 5.6.14

• Install Composer

Second, we need Composer. What is Composer?

Composer is a dependency management. That’s it! If you want to install some dependencies in your Laravel project, use Composer. Composer will maintain these dependencies. In real Laravel projects, we often need Composer to make models, controllers, migrations, etc.

So, before using Laravel, make sure you have Composer installed on your machine. Download the Composer here.

• Install Laravel

Last thing, let’s install Laravel with our Composer! Open the command prompt and navigate to your destination project folder. For example, I have a projects folder in C:

cd C:/projects

Then at your command prompt, type below:

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog

The “blog” is the name of your preferred project name. If you see in your explorer, there will be a new folder in C:/projects/blog (or whatever name you give it). Inside the folder is the Laravel starter package.

You can start the Laravel with:

php artisan serve

Now the Laravel is running. Open your browser and go to http://localhost:8000 and see if Laravel homepage already there