Windows - Installation guide for Laravel 8.x

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Windows - Installation guide for Laravel 8.x

Using Composer, PHP 7.4.1, Laravel 8.x and MAMP 4.2.0.

Installation guide

1. Download and install MAMP or somehing similair.
2. Download and install Composer.
   • Choose PHP 7.4.1 from MAMP as command-line PHP, can be found at C:\MAMP\bin\php\php7.4.16.
3. Using the command line, head to the folder C:\MAMP\htdocs.
4. Run command composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel example.
   • If you get issue 1, edit and add extension=php_fileinfo.dll to C:\MAMP\bin\php7.4.1\php.ini and C:\MAMP\conf\php7.4.1\php.ini.
   • You might need to restart Apache after this change.
   • This might take couple of minutes, be patient.
5. Open MAMP and start the server.
6. Using the command line, go to your new project folder. Run the command php artisan serve.
7. Your server is now up and running on the listed IP-address.

Issues

1. Missing fileinfo extension in PHP.

Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.
Problem 1
    - laravel/framework[v8.12.0, ..., 8.x-dev] require league/flysystem ^1.1 -> satisfiable by league/flysystem[1.1.0, ..., 1.x-dev].
    - league/flysystem[1.1.0, ..., 1.x-dev] require ext-fileinfo * -> it is missing from your system. Install or enable PHP's fileinfo extension.
    - Root composer.json requires laravel/framework ^8.12 -> satisfiable by laravel/framework[v8.12.0, ..., 8.x-dev].

To enable extensions, verify that they are enabled in your .ini files:
    - C:\MAMP\bin\php\php7.4.1\php.ini
You can also run `php --ini` inside terminal to see which files are used by PHP in CLI mode.