This command tells the composer to install the Laravel application with the name this-is-your-application-name as you see it is the last part of the command. composer create-project laravel/laravel this-is-your-application-name Now, it’s time to install the Laravel application so run the below command that would create the fresh application. Next, run the below command that would let you in xampp/htdocs directory, cd xampp/htdocs Usually, Windows installs every software into C drive by default. Here, I assume that Xampp is installed into the C drive, in case it is installed in any other drive then change C accordingly. If you are on Windows 11 or you don’t see it then open the git bash terminal and write the run below commands, cd C: Go to Xampp/htdocs directory and right-click, you should see an option for “Git Bash Here”. For complete installation, steps click on educative.io Install Laravel Framework: To install Git Bash go to and download and install it. Bash is an acronym for Bourne Again Shell. It is an application that provides a better interface to run commands and show status for windows environments. If you are looking for complete installation steps then go to and follow the steps. To install composer, go to and click on Composer-Setup.exe to download and run it. ComposerĬomposer is a dependency management tool of PHP that provides a facility for declaring application dependencies, then it helps to manage them in installation and updating on the end-user. You can follow the installation steps on 2. On the download page, under the section of XAMPP for Windows, the file version name looks like the below, 8.0.19 / PHP 8.0.19

exe file that should have PHP version 8 or above. For installing Xampp on windows, go to and download the. Xampp is a free and well-reputed web server that runs multiple programming languages including PHP and its applications on the local server developed by Apache Friends. Let’s install and configure the software that is required for installing the Laravel application.

Following is the software that needs to be installed, Before getting started make sure that a few software is installed and configured well.

This article covers all steps to installing fresh Laravel application on windows.

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