Install laravel on windows. In this article , We’ll show you how to Install Laravel 5.8, 5.7 & 5.6 Framework on windows 7/8/10 system step by step and create a first laravel 5.8, 5.7 & 5.6 application. Also dicuss about How to Install Composer windows. Install Laravel on Windows in a matter of minutes.

What is Laravel?

Laravel is free open source “PHP framework” based on MVC design pattern .
It is created by Taylor Otwell. Laravel provides expressive and elegant syntax that helps in creating a wonderful web application easily and quickly.

What’s New in Laravel 5.7

• Securing Laravel APIs with Auth0
• Laravel Dump Server Integration
• Laravel Nova
• Guest User Gates / Policies
• Email Verification
• Optional Email Verification
• URL Generator & Callable Syntax
• Paginator
• Improved Error Messages
• Testing Artisan Commands

Install Laravel on Windows with Composer

Contents

• Download and Install Composer
• System Requirement
• Create Project
• Start Development Server
• Conclusion

Note : If you install laravel in ubuntu system. Must Read, How to install composer in ubuntu Click Here

1. Download and Install Composer?

Before install laravel on windows. first of download composer on windows system. If you already composer download / installed Composer.  go to STEP 2, Otherwise follow the steps.

Click  Download Composer from: www.getcomposer.org

Run the setup and Install Composer.

Next the window will display the resume of the settings, click “Install” to continue.

If you have any proxy url enter here, don’t know leave it click next

install composer

The setup wizard will download the required files from getcomposer.org . Your installation will be completed.

Composer installed successfully. Click to finish button and move to next step.

install composer

Open command prompt & type cd C:\xampp\htdocs

 

2. Server Requirements

The Laravel framework has a few system requirements. Before we will install laravel 5.7 on windows, read some system requirements.

• PHP >= 7.1.3
• OpenSSL PHP Extension
• PDO PHP Extension
• Mbstring PHP Extension
• Tokenizer PHP Extension
• XML PHP Extension
• Ctype PHP Extension
• JSON PHP Extension
• BCMath PHP Extension

3. Install Laravel 5.7

Type the command In command prompt => composer create-project laravel/laravel Project Name. It will install laravel 5.7  fresh setup on your system.

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

Wait for Laravel install on windows system.

After successfully install laravel setup. If your using ubuntu machine. open your terminal and go to your project root directory (
using the command cd blog ) and type the below command in command prompt :

sudo chmod  -R 777 storage

sudo chmod  -R 777 bootstrap

4. Start Development Server

In this step to use the php artisan serve command .it will start your server locally

php artisan serve

If you want to run the project diffrent port so use this command

php artisan serve --port=8080 ?

You have successfully install laravel on windows , Now Go to the browser and hit the

URL : http://localhost:8000/blog

If you are not run php artisan server command , direct go to your browser and type the url

URL : http://localhost/blog/public/

Laravel  Installation Process completed go to the browser and hit URL. http://localhost/project-name /public/, you will be see.

5. Conclusion

You have successufully install latest version laravel on windows with composer.