How to install Laravel 5 with Xampp (Windows)

Requirements:

1. PHP 5.5.9 or above

2. OpenSSL PHP Extension

3. PDO PHP Extension

4. Mbstring PHP Extension

5. Tokenizer PHP Extension

First of all, we need Xampp, so we can download it from the official page

After you've downloaded and installed Xampp, we need to install Composer from official page

After install it, we can open a Windows terminal and write composer for execute the command:

We will configure a Virtual Host in Xampp for a Laravel project, and in this example, we want to configure the domain laravel.local for our project.
We need to edit httpd-vhosts.conf that is located in C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf and add following lines at the end of the file:

<VirtualHost laravel.local:80>
    DocumentRoot "C:\xampp\htdocs\laravel\public"
    ServerAdmin laravel.local
    <Directory "C:\xampp\htdocs\laravel">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Now we have to configure our hosts file that allows to redirect laravel.local to the localhost that is located in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc, add "127.0.0.1 laravel.local" to the  end of the file named "hosts".

We are prepared to install and configure a Laravel Framework. First of all, we have to navigate to "C:\xampp\htdocs" folder to install it and run this following command:

composer create-project laravel/laravel your_folder

Finally, have to start our Apache and MySql from Xampp control panel

And need to start laravel as server using following command:

php artisan serve --port=45

and navigate to http://localhost:45 from browser: