How to Install Laragon on Windows

A short Introduction to laravel

Laravel is one of the top famous PHP frameworks I ever used. It is based on MVC architecture and comes with lots of useful features for easier web development. 

Why laragon?

If you are a web developer,  I’ll strongly recommend you laragon as a web server buddy for your local development on windows platform. In my experience laragon is easy to use to make you fast and effective to develop your project.

Features of laragon

  • Automatically create a virtual host
  • Mail Catcher And Mail Sender
  • Simple switching Apache, PHP, MySQL and MariaDB
  • Easy creating projects with frameworks like Laravel, CakePHP, Symfony and etc
  • You can set up your environment as you need very easy

Let’s start in the installation of Laragon

Step 1 : 

Go to the Laragon download page and choose the version based on your needs. 

Note: I prefer to download the full version as it might save you a lot of time for configuration in the future.

Step 2: 

Go to your download folder to find Laragon installer.

Step 3 : 

Just double click the installer and follow normal installation instructions and click Finish to complete the installation.

Step 4 :

after installation is completed you can find a shortcut named (laragon) on your desktop. if you can’t find the shortcut then you can go to (C:/laragon) directory and find the file named (laragon.exe)

Step 5: 

Here’s the final step now double click on the file name (laragon.exe)

and click on start all

Final Words

The steps provided by me in this tutorial is easy to perform by any person who is having a basic knowledge of computer. I’m happy to help you to fix that problem.

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