Installing Laravel on Windows Xampp

Installing Laravel is easy and few steps to follow and creating your own app is so easy too. Here I just give you very easy way to install laravel on your windows machine with Xampp (MySQL, PHP , Apache) Environment.  First make sure that you have installed Xampp on your localhost. Than install composer to initiate setup.

You can get windows composer from here. Than just download and install it.  than you have the following things to start installing laravel.

1. Xampp installed on windows pc or lap.

2. composer downloaded and installed it.

3. Make sure your system connected to internet.

Than your steps begins,

1. Open htdocs folder (C:/xampp/htdocs/ ). Than right click your mouse and there you will see some additional options as like shown in the following image. (Mine is windows 8).

 There click Use Composer here. It will initiate  composer here. I mean a Dos-Command Prompt opens and path is already found in it,  and type the following command as like shown in the figure.

composer create-project laravel/laravel

Than it will start downloading laravel files from server. It appears like the following commands in it.

Installing laravel/laravel (v4.1.18)
  - Installing laravel/laravel (v4.1.18)
    Downloading: 100%

Created project in C:\\laravel
Loading composer repositories with package information
Installing dependencies (including require-dev)
  - Installing symfony/translation (v2.4.1)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Installing psr/log (1.0.0)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Installing symfony/routing (v2.4.1)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Installing symfony/process (v2.4.1)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Installing symfony/finder (v2.4.1)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Installing symfony/console (v2.4.1)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Installing symfony/filesystem (v2.4.1)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Installing symfony/debug (v2.4.1)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Installing symfony/http-foundation (v2.4.1)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Installing symfony/event-dispatcher (v2.4.1)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Installing symfony/http-kernel (v2.4.1)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Installing symfony/dom-crawler (v2.4.1)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Installing symfony/css-selector (v2.4.1)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Installing symfony/browser-kit (v2.4.1)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Installing swiftmailer/swiftmailer (v5.0.3)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Installing stack/builder (v1.0.1)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Installing predis/predis (v0.8.5)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Installing phpseclib/phpseclib (0.3.5)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Installing patchwork/utf8 (v1.1.17)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Installing nesbot/carbon (1.8.0)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Installing monolog/monolog (1.7.0)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Installing nikic/php-parser (v0.9.4)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Installing jeremeamia/superclosure (1.0.1)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Installing filp/whoops (1.0.10)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Installing ircmaxell/password-compat (1.0.3)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Installing d11wtq/boris (v1.0.8)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Installing classpreloader/classpreloader (1.0.1)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Installing laravel/framework (v4.1.18)
    Downloading: 100%

symfony/translation suggests installing symfony/config ()
symfony/translation suggests installing symfony/yaml ()
symfony/routing suggests installing symfony/config (For using the all-in-one rou
ter or any loader)
symfony/routing suggests installing symfony/yaml (For using the YAML loader)
symfony/routing suggests installing symfony/expression-language (For using expre
ssion matching)
symfony/routing suggests installing doctrine/annotations (For using the annotati
on loader)
symfony/event-dispatcher suggests installing symfony/dependency-injection ()
symfony/http-kernel suggests installing symfony/class-loader ()
symfony/http-kernel suggests installing symfony/config ()
symfony/http-kernel suggests installing symfony/dependency-injection ()
predis/predis suggests installing ext-phpiredis (Allows faster serialization and
 deserialization of the Redis protocol)
phpseclib/phpseclib suggests installing ext-gmp (Install the GMP (GNU Multiple P
recision) extension in order to speed up arbitrary precision integer arithmetic
operations.)
phpseclib/phpseclib suggests installing pear-pear/PHP_Compat (Install PHP_Compat
 to get phpseclib working on PHP >= 4.3.3.)
patchwork/utf8 suggests installing ext-intl (Use Intl for best performance)
monolog/monolog suggests installing mlehner/gelf-php (Allow sending log messages
 to a GrayLog2 server)
monolog/monolog suggests installing raven/raven (Allow sending log messages to a
 Sentry server)
monolog/monolog suggests installing doctrine/couchdb (Allow sending log messages
 to a CouchDB server)
monolog/monolog suggests installing ruflin/elastica (Allow sending log messages
to an Elastic Search server)
monolog/monolog suggests installing ext-amqp (Allow sending log messages to an A
MQP server (1.0+ required))
monolog/monolog suggests installing ext-mongo (Allow sending log messages to a M
ongoDB server)
monolog/monolog suggests installing aws/aws-sdk-php (Allow sending log messages
to AWS services like DynamoDB)
d11wtq/boris suggests installing ext-readline (*)
d11wtq/boris suggests installing ext-pcntl (*)
d11wtq/boris suggests installing ext-posix (*)
laravel/framework suggests installing doctrine/dbal (Allow renaming columns and
dropping SQLite columns.)
Writing lock file
Generating autoload files
Generating optimized class loader

with additionally it creates your laravel application key. that will be shown in the end of the line. Than open your browser and type

http://localhost/laravel/public/

you will get  a screen like this.

Thats it. if you have any problem with it. drop your comment here.

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