In this tutorial, we will be looking into installing laravel on Windows using WAMP. If you are new to laravel, installing laravel on Windows might be a little overwhelming for you at first. I wish to make the installation process for laravel on Windows for you as breezy as the framework itself, so let’s dig in
Step 1: Installing WAMP
Download its dependencies (Visual C++ packages) first, which are as follows.
Make sure you are “up to date” in the redistributable packages VC9, VC10, VC11, VC13, and VC14.
Visual C++ Packages :
The libraries VC9, VC10, and VC11 are required for WampServer 2.4, 2.5, and 3.0, even if you use only Apache and PHP versions with VC11.
Runtimes VC13, VC14 are required for PHP 7 and Apache 2.4.17
- VC9 Packages (Visual C++ 2008 SP1)
- VC10 Packages (Visual C++ 2010 SP1)
- VC11 Packages (Visual C++ 2012 Update 4)
- VC13 Packages (Visual C++ 2013)
- VC14 Packages (Visual C++ 2015)
You must install both 32 and 64-bit versions, even if you do not use WampServer 64-bit.
Next, download & install WAMP
Step 2: Configuring your computer
- Go to Settings > Advanced System Settings> Environment Variables
- In the SYSTEM VARIABLES section below ,select PATH & click edit
- In the Edit Environment tab that pops up, click New
- Add your path to the PHP exe file from the wamp64 directory in your system, mostly it is C:\wamp64\bin\php\php7.0.0
- Click Ok
Step 3: Installing Composer (The PHP package manager)
- Download & install composer
- Now, same as in step 2, you need to add a new environment variable for composer
- Go again to the same settings, now add the path for composer bi,n which should be something like this
C:\ProgramData\ComposerSetup\bin - Click OK
- Open CLI, type “composer” and check if it has been properly installed or not
Step 4: Installing Laravel Installer (Final step)
- The steps in the official docs are easy enough, so let’s not be redundant here.
I hope it helps you people, if you face any difficulty let me know in the comments below, happy to help 🙂
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