Suppose you have a Laravel project made by somebody else and you need to install it to run on your Windows machine.
- Un-archive the project in a folder inside your XAMPP htdocs folder;
- Make sure you have Artisan working correctly;
- Do the following steps in your console:
composer install
check .env file
php artisan migrate
php artisan key:generate
php artisan db:seed
php artisan make:auth
For more information on the first two steps you can read the previous two posts in our blog.