Powerful and user-friendly PHP integrated development environment Laragon

Publish: 2019-05-14 | Modify: 2019-05-14

Laragon is an integrated development environment that includes Apache, PHP, MySQL, Nginx, and other environments, eliminating the hassle of manual configuration. It can completely replace XAMPP, which was previously used by Xiaoz for local development.

Laragon

Installing Laragon

Laragon only supports Windows systems. You can go to the official website: https://laragon.org/download/ to download the latest version, and it is recommended to download the Laragon - Lite version.

  1. Choose English for the installation interface, do not choose Chinese, otherwise the installation interface will be garbled (tested on a Windows 10 environment).
  2. After installation, you can set it to Chinese interface by yourself (as shown in the figure below).

Laragon Chinese Interface

Removing Unnecessary Software

The Laragon - Lite version integrates many third-party software tools such as Notepad++ and Cmder. If you don't need these tools, you can go to the bin directory and delete the corresponding folders.

Installing phpMyAdmin

Laragon does not include phpMyAdmin tool by default. If you are used to using phpMyAdmin, you can:

  1. Go to the phpMyAdmin official website: https://www.phpmyadmin.net/ to download the latest version of phpMyAdmin.
  2. Extract it to laragon\etc\apps\phpMyAdmin.
  3. Finally, open localhost/phpMyAdmin in your browser to access phpMyAdmin.

Adding Additional PHP Versions

Laragon only includes one PHP version by default. If you need support for multiple PHP versions:

  1. Go to the PHP official website to download the PHP version you need.
  2. Extract it to the laragon\bin\php directory.
  3. Finally, in the Laragon - PHP options, switch to the PHP version you want to use.

Packaging Laragon

Laragon does not use Windows services. It has its own service orchestration asynchronous and non-blocking management service. Therefore, you can compress and package the Laragon directory, and then directly extract and use it on other computers. It's that convenient.

Summary

If you are a PHP developer, I highly recommend Laragon. It is very suitable for both development and production environments on Windows systems, eliminating the hassle of manual configuration.

Laragon Official Website: https://laragon.org/

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I come from China and I am a freelancer. I specialize in Linux operations, PHP, Golang, and front-end development. I have developed open-source projects such as Zdir, ImgURL, CCAA, and OneNav.

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