How to install Laravel 5.3 in localhost windows

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Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Laravel Framework need localhost server in PC for develop, and you will need to make sure your server meets the following requirements:

PHP >= 5.5.9
OpenSSL PHP Extension
PDO PHP Extension
Mbstring PHP Extension
Tokenizer PHP Extension

you can use localhost application server XAMPP, so we can download it from the official page:

Download XAMPP

next, after downloaded and installed XAMPP, we need to install Composer for manage its dependencies. In windows install composer its easy, going to official page and download installer composer.

Download Installer Composer

After downloaded and installed Composer, we need to running XAMPP

and make new folder in:

C:\xampp\htdocs\name_project_laravel_folder

after running XAMPP and make new folder, going to folder has been created, and open Command Prompt (CMD) with Shift+Right click mouse, choose "Open command window here".

now we can install laravel, use this command for installation Laravel 5.3 on CMD:

composer create-project laravel/laravel laravel "5.3.*"
this command will installed laravel version 5.3
composer create-project laravel/laravel --prefer-dist
this command will installed laravel is referenced or stable

after that, click Enter for execute command and waiting until successfully installed.

laravel 5.3 success installed, now we can try running laravel with:

Command artisan and url http://localhost:8000
type command on C:\xampp\htdocs\name_project_laravel_folder\laravel

php artisan serve

and open url http://localhost:8000 on your web browser
or for simple, open url http://localhost/name_project_laravel_folder/laravel/public/