How to Install and Make First Laravel App on Windows
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I use Wamp on my Windows box for developing PHP based apps, I recently installed Laravel on my Windows box to test how to framework works and performs common tasks related to web development. I would keep posting good stuff I learned about Laravel in easy to follow steps for new developers of Laravel like me. The Steps I followed are following: Laravel used Composer for dependency management, so first I installed Composer for Windows. Like to download is: https://getcomposer.org/Composer-Setup.exe During the Composer installation, it would ask for the location of PHP.exe, so make sure you have installed PHP on your system before you install Composer. It would download a few things from internet, so wait with patience. It uses SSL, so make sure SSL module is enabled in your php.ini file, just remove the ";" before the like: "extension=php_openssl.dll". The php.ini file is located at your php's installation home folder. The installation would also set the composer