Quickly install and run Laravel 5.x on Windows

Original http://www.golaravel.com/post/install-and-run-laravel-5-x-on-windows/Install PHP

Note One: Laravel 5.0 started on the PHP version of the requirement is >=5.4 that Laravel 5.1 requires PHP version >=5.5.9 , so it is recommended that you try to install the latest version of 5.5.x.

download and set up PHP

2. Go to http://windows.php.net/download/to download the latest version of PHP 5.5.x. If you are using a x64 system, it is recommended to download a version that supports x64. thread safeand non thread safe The representative is whether to support thread safety, which we choose non thread safe .

4. Unzip the downloaded PHP installation package to any directory, recommend the C drive, the PHP installation path will be C:\php .

6. Add the PHP installation path to the PATH environment variable. Because we're going to use PHP's command-line tool this time, this setting is important.

8. Enter the PHP installation directory (for example C:\php ). Locate the php.ini-development file and copy it to the current directory and rename it to php.ini .

10. php.inito open the file with the editor, modify the following configuration:
    Remove extension=php_mbstring.dll The preceding semicolon (888 rows or so)
    Remove extension=php_openssl.dll the preceding semicolon (893 rows or so)
    Remove extension_dir = "ext" the preceding semicolon (736 rows or so)

Download Laravel 5.1

Lravel provides a one-click installation package for all versions of Laravel 4.x and 5.x (Lumen also available!). ), go to the download page to download the latest version of Laravel v5.1.x:

http://www.golaravel.com/download/

Laravel GitHub package Download: https://codeload.github.com/laravel/laravel/

let Laravel run.

1. To extract the downloaded Laravel one-click installation package to any directory, we assume that the root directory of the C drive is extracted, the final path is: C:\laravel-v5.1.3 .
2. Open a new command prompt window and cd go to the Laravel installation directory:cd c:\laravel-v5.1.3

3. Enter and execute php artisan serve the instruction, you can see the following prompt:

It means that Laravel has run!

1. Open the browser, enter in the Address bar localhost:8000 , and enter to see if there is a familiar screen:)

What the hell is going on here?

In fact, starting with PHP version 5.4, PHP has built-in (built-in) a Web server, and Laravel's artisan command also supports this built-in Web server, which makes it easier for beginners to get started quickly and start Laravel. Of course, if you are deploying to a production server, you will want to install a Web server such as Apache or Nginx.

artisanThe serve command also supports two parameters:

• hostSet the host address
• portSet the port number that Web server listens on

Quickly install and run Laravel 5.x on Windows