great great video, I actually signed in just to subscribe (extremely rare). thank you for putting such a helpful video together. I decided to do a fresh install of Windows (been using Ubuntu for about 2 years - which I installed the same day I started learning how to code) but felt a bit lost trying to get the environment setup on windows, this video was extremely helpful AND it also answered the specific question I had (path section at the end). THANKS!
At 17:55 you showed how to run nginx. I know very little about it. I noticed that you did not turn off Apache. Could you elaborate on this? It is possible to run both at the same time? How did your app know to use port 8080? Thank you.
Hi, thanks for the question, to be honest, I forgot to disable Apache when recording the video, but lucky for me, you can run both Apache and Nginx (as far as I understand) in Laragon at the same time, but when Nginx is enabled (alongside with Apache), and you open your local site from Laragon menu (like I do in the video) it defaults to Nginx, I guess it's just a default behavior of Laragon. However, if Apache is disabled and only Nginx is running, when you manually enter your site address/url in browser, you have to explicitly specify the port number which is 8080 for Nginx, otherwise it won't load. But if you access it from Laragon menu it will automatically add 8080 as the port number. If my answer is not 100% clear for you, let me know and I'll try to explain it better.
Thank you for the comment and sorry for a late answer. As far as I know, since Laragon is a very portable software, you can copy and paste the entire Laragon folder (C:\laragon) from one machine to another. But unfortunately I've never tried it. Here you can find some additional information: github.com/leokhoa/laragon/discussions/445 php.watch/articles/laragon-windows-php#laragon-portable "Laragon does not use standard Windows Services to start/stop services. When Laragon starts, it looks for PHP/MySQL/Apache/etc directories inside the Laragon directory, and re-configures the configuration files. Laragon handles the start/reload/stop actions of the software it manages. This makes Laragon portable and isolated from the rest of the system. Laragon is easy to backup, as simple as backing up the Laragon directory (along with the Document Root and MySQL data directories if necessary), and requires no further changes in Windows."
Try to go Laragon / etc / apps / phpMyAdmin and open the file - config.inc.php, make sure that "$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword']" is set to true, you may need to restart Laragon
Hi, thanks for the question, nowadays there are lot of VPS providers under 5$ like, Kamatera for example (it's free for one month for new accounts), if I had to share ongoing project with client I would prefer to host it somewhere, as services like ngrok only works when your computer is up and running. There's also some ways to host Laravel application for free (checkout koyeb.com). In addition you can read this article: darkghosthunter.medium.com/hosting-laravel-for-free-78dbab674854
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Great tutorial, after many years of searching, I still think that Laragon is the best free local dev environment app available
great great video, I actually signed in just to subscribe (extremely rare). thank you for putting such a helpful video together. I decided to do a fresh install of Windows (been using Ubuntu for about 2 years - which I installed the same day I started learning how to code) but felt a bit lost trying to get the environment setup on windows, this video was extremely helpful AND it also answered the specific question I had (path section at the end).
THANKS!
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Thank you, i have been getting errors from xampp for over a year. just have to switched to laragon
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At 17:55 you showed how to run nginx. I know very little about it. I noticed that you did not turn off Apache. Could you elaborate on this? It is possible to run both at the same time? How did your app know to use port 8080? Thank you.
Hi, thanks for the question, to be honest, I forgot to disable Apache when recording the video, but lucky for me, you can run both Apache and Nginx (as far as I understand) in Laragon at the same time, but when Nginx is enabled (alongside with Apache), and you open your local site from Laragon menu (like I do in the video) it defaults to Nginx, I guess it's just a default behavior of Laragon.
However, if Apache is disabled and only Nginx is running, when you manually enter your site address/url in browser, you have to explicitly specify the port number which is 8080 for Nginx, otherwise it won't load. But if you access it from Laragon menu it will automatically add 8080 as the port number.
If my answer is not 100% clear for you, let me know and I'll try to explain it better.
Great explainer, I was using WAMP but can't work out how to import my projects into Laragon.
You can see the detailed steps on how to migrate from WAMP to Laragon here: laragon.org/download/migrate-from-wamp
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Say if i where to need to install windows clean, is there a way to "backup" exciting local website projects?
Thank you for the comment and sorry for a late answer. As far as I know, since Laragon is a very portable software, you can copy and paste the entire Laragon folder (C:\laragon) from one machine to another. But unfortunately I've never tried it. Here you can find some additional information:
github.com/leokhoa/laragon/discussions/445
php.watch/articles/laragon-windows-php#laragon-portable
"Laragon does not use standard Windows Services to start/stop services. When Laragon starts, it looks for PHP/MySQL/Apache/etc directories inside the Laragon directory, and re-configures the configuration files. Laragon handles the start/reload/stop actions of the software it manages.
This makes Laragon portable and isolated from the rest of the system. Laragon is easy to backup, as simple as backing up the Laragon directory (along with the Document Root and MySQL data directories if necessary), and requires no further changes in Windows."
failing to login to PHP_My_Admin. It is saying "login without a password forbidden"
Try to go Laragon / etc / apps / phpMyAdmin and open the file - config.inc.php, make sure that "$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword']" is set to true, you may need to restart Laragon
What are the alternatives to share projects with tour client
Hi, thanks for the question, nowadays there are lot of VPS providers under 5$ like, Kamatera for example (it's free for one month for new accounts), if I had to share ongoing project with client I would prefer to host it somewhere, as services like ngrok only works when your computer is up and running. There's also some ways to host Laravel application for free (checkout koyeb.com). In addition you can read this article: darkghosthunter.medium.com/hosting-laravel-for-free-78dbab674854