Laravel Installation Setup with XAMPP Portable in Windows 7

Requirements

• XAMPP Portable 1.8.3 PHP 5.5 [ get this ] [ main site ]
• Laravel Framework Source Bundle [ get this ] [ main site ]
• Composer [ manual installation ] [ main site ]
• Internet Connection

My Computer Spesification

• OS Windows 7 SP1

XAMPP Portable Setup

• Download , locate , extract and rename to your directory . (  ex  E:\xampp ).

COMPOSER Manual Setup

• Run XAMPP Portable Control Panel v 3.2.1 ( E:\xampp\xampp-control.exe )
• Start MySQL Services
• Start Apache Services
• Click Shell button in the right corner to open XAMPP SHELL BASH Command Prompt
• type    cd e:\xampp\php
• still on directory   e:\xampp\php    type

  php -r "readfile('https://getcomposer.org/installer');" | php

• wait until the installation is complete
• Create a new composer.bat file alongside composer.phar:
• still on directory   e:\xampp\php    type

  echo @php "%~dp0composer.phar" %*>composer.bat

• type

  composer -V

• if you look at the composer title screen, then your installation successful
• Now close the XAMPP command shell bash
• Restart MySQL and Apache services on the XAMPP Portable Control Panel
• Open XAMPP command shell bash
• now just type composer  it will show composer title screen on shell bash. or type composer -V to show the version

LARAVEL Setup

• Download , locate , extract and rename to XAMPP public directory ( ex E:\xampp\htdocs\mylaravelproject )
• Open XAMPP Portable Control Panel
• Dont forget to activate Apache and MySQL
• Run XAMPP Portable SHELL Command Prompt
• type cd E:\xampp\htdocs\mylaravelproject
• type      composer create-project laravel/laravel mylaravelproject –prefer-dist       ( this is add laravel dependency source class manager to your mylaravelproject )
• wait until finish downloading dependency class manager to your laravel local project  ( if you dont know the dependency management read this or this )
• After finish   type on your browser   http://localhost/mylaravelproject/public     It Show your laravel project home view

Ok next we will discuss how to create Apache VIRTUAL HOST XAMPP Portable in Windows 7
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