How To Install Laravel

How to install laravel is fairly easy. A beginner like can do it. Working on dependencies, Laravel uses PHP composer. You need to install Composer in your computer before installing Laravel.

First – Visit the following link and download composer to install it to your system.

Next – After the Composer is installed, you can check if it’s installed properly in your system by typing “composer” in your command prompt.

command prompt composer laravel
command prompt composer laravel

Next – Create a directory inside your working location, if you’re using XAMPP then go to C:/xampp/htdocs then create a folder. name it as the name of your project. I would name mine “laravel” so the directory would be C:/xampp/htdocs/laravel.

Open Command Prompt then go to the directory you just created, once inside, type the following code to start installing Laravel composer create-project laravel/laravel –-prefer-dist

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

Wait for it to finish the install.

Next – To start the laravel service, type the following inside your laravel directory. php artisan serve

composer laravel php artisan serve
composer laravel php artisan serve

You may need to restart your computer after installing Composer.

Finish – Make sure that Apache server is running, go to your browser and type localhost/laravel/laravel/public/ for my project

laravel intro browser
laravel intro browser

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