Set up the web server for Laravel development

For this course we’ll need a web-server, a PHP interpreter and a MySQL database. You may choose to install these tools separately but there is an easier way, you simply need to install XAMPP which is a bundle of softwares required for PHP development. a. You have to go to the website- https://www.apachefriends.org/ b. Download XAMPP for you system c. Install XAMPP by following the instructions of the installer (You may need to adjust the User Access Control settings of your system for XAMPP to work )

Now we’ll have a control panel like this one, from this panel we can start or stop the Apache webserver and MySql. There are a few other tools too but we are not concerned about them at this moment.

Start Apache and MySQL

Now go the web browser type http://localhost and hit enter Now if a page like this one is loaded then the we can be sure that the server is running.

Now click on this phpMyAdmin button at the right top corner of the page, and if a page similar to this one appears then it is confirmed that MySQL too is working properly.

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