Installing Laravel 5.1 on Windows 8.1 | x64 | PhpStorm 9.0.2

Installing Laravel 5.1 on Windows 8.1 | x64 | phpStorm 9.0.2


Requirements:

1. PHP 5.5.9 +
2. OpenSSL PHP Extension
3. PDO PHP Extension
4. Mbstring PHP Extension
5. Tokenizer PHP Extension
6. Composer Link

Installing Laravel:

1.Type  php composer create-project laravel/laravel --prefer-dist in your command prompt,  you can use any directory.

2.Open the "config" folder in Laravel app  and open the "app.php" look at  'key' => env('APP_KEY', 'SomeRandomString'),

in "SomeRandomString" put any string of size 32. 

Running Laravel:

On your terminal under Laravel folder type php -S localhost:8000 -t 'public'

It will show you

PHP 5.6.3 Development Server started at Thu Oct 29 16:49:25 2015

Listening on http://localhost:8000

Document root is C:\xamppPhp56\htdocs\Laraval\blog\public

Press Ctrl-C to quit.

You can now open the http://localhost:8000

Output:

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