How to install laravel on xampp localhost

What is laravel and how does it work..?

laravel is a framework to help you speed up, website development, laravel is openscuer, and can be downloaded for free

in this article I will share how to install laravel on xampp localhost, and I will blend you, to install laravel on localhost

• also read how to install xampp

Instalation

Server Requirements
The Laravel framework has several system requirements. Of course, all of these requirements are met by the Laravel Homestead virtual machine, so it is strongly recommended that you use Homestead as your local Laravel development environment.

• PHP >= 7.1.3
• OpenSSL PHP Extension
• PDO PHP Extension
• Mbstring PHP Extension
• Tokenizer PHP Extension
• XML PHP Extension

Installing Laravel
Laravel utilizes Composer to manage its dependencies. So, before using Laravel, make sure you have Composer installed on your machine.

Via Laravel Installer
First, download the Laravel installer using Composer:

first download the composer or click here and you will see an image like below, and click download

and you will be taken to the download setup, I recommend downloading the Composer-Setup.exe version, as shown below

Then open the composer you downloaded earlier, as shown below

The next step, you will be taken to the install setup as shown below:

do the installation next and next to complete, as shown below

Through Composer Create-Project
Alternatively, you can also install Laravel by issuing the Composer create-project command in your terminal:

1. Open the cmd terminal and then command as below, instruct the directory,( xampp \ htdocs )

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

Note : blog you can customize with the name of your project
see the terminal command below

the next step is open on the localhost server, enable apache and mysql

open in the browser and type the command as below

http://localhost/blog

or

http://localhost/your_laravel_project

success install laravel

Configuration

Public Directory
After installing Laravel, you should configure your web server's document / web root to be the  public directory. The index.php in this directory serves as the front controller for all HTTP requests entering your application.

Configuration Files

All of the configuration files for the Laravel framework are stored in the config directory. Each option is documented, so feel free to look through the files and get familiar with the options available to you.

Directory Permissions

After installing Laravel, you may need to configure some permissions. Directories within the  storage and the bootstrap/cache directories should be writable by your web server or Laravel will not run. If you are using the Homestead virtual machine, these permissions should already be set.

Application Key

The next thing you should do after installing Laravel is set your application key to a random string. If you installed Laravel via Composer or the Laravel installer, this key has already been set for you by the php artisan key:generate command.

Typically, this string should be 32 characters long. The key can be set in the .env environment file. If you have not renamed the .env.example file to .env, you should do that now. If the application key is not set, your user sessions and other encrypted data will not be secure!

Additional Configuration

Laravel needs almost no other configuration out of the box. You are free to get started developing! However, you may wish to review the config/app.php file and its documentation. It contains several options such as timezone and locale that you may wish to change according to your application.

You may also want to configure a few additional components of Laravel, such as:

• Cache
• Database
• Session

Pretty URLs

Apache
Laravel includes a public/.htaccess file that is used to provide URLs without the index.php front controller in the path. Before serving Laravel with Apache, be sure to enable the  mod_rewrite module so the .htaccess file will be honored by the server.

If the .htaccess file that ships with Laravel does not work with your Apache installation, try this alternative:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]

Nginx
If you are using Nginx, the following directive in your site configuration will direct all requests to the index.php front controller:

location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}