install xampp, and composer
once installed create a composer project
composer create-project laravel/laravel .
change .env in laravel to use mysql as the DB_CONNECTION
DB_CONNECTION=mysql
Also make sure your php extensions are enabled by making sure in php.ini the following is uncommented
extension_dir = "ext" extension=mysqli extension=pdo_mysql extension=openssl
go to xamp php myadmin and create the database with the correct name
configure your .env with the xamp connection db data
DB_CONNECTION=mysql DB_HOST=127.0.0.1 DB_PORT=3306 DB_DATABASE=databasename DB_USERNAME=root DB_PASSWORD=
make sure your env points to the xamp php folder to use php
run command artisan migrate inside the laravel folder
php artisan migrate
npm install (only for dev box) npm run dev (to run vite) (only for dev box) (it serves tailwind and livewire)
If everything went well you should see this in your local host
