Nishchay - Learn Windows without composer

Install without composer on windows

This guide explains how to setup application on your machine without composer.

Download

You first need to download application, if you already have downloaded application skip this step.

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Install xampp

XAMPP is the most popular PHP development environment which comes with Apache, PHP & MySQL.

Once downloaded install it in your machine.

We recommend installing it in drive other than C. For this tutorial we will consider that you have installed it in D drive.

Download xampp from here

Copy application

Extract downloaded application
Copy and past it in _D:\xampp\htdocs_.

Create your site

Go to D:\xampp\apache\conf\extra
Open file httpd-vhosts.conf.
Add below code at end of file

<VirtualHost >
    DocumentRoot "D:\xampp\htdocs\nishchay\public"
    ServerName app.nishchay.local
    <Directory "D:\xampp\htdocs\nishchay\public">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
   </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Add host entry

Open C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts with administritive access so that you edit and save changes.
Add below line at end of file.

127.0.0.1   app.nishchay.local

Restart apache server

Open xampp control panel(It might at right bottom of your screen in toolbar section).
Stop and restart apache server.

Check if it's working now

Open browser
Visit http://app.nishchay.local
You should see application welcome page.

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