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Robert Mylne
13,708 PointsLaravel Xampp
Can you just use xampp for laravel like with other php? I can not get vagrant and homestead to work. It keeps giving me a connection error
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Maciej Sitko
16,164 PointsYes,this works.
You can set it up on either typical apache or xampp and then use its Virtual Hosts.
Follow up this post by core Laravel developer of Laravel Dayle Rees to set up laravel and laravel's pretty urls properly:
http://daylerees.com/codebright/getting-started
There's lots of info how to do that, with the configuration of apache Virtual hosts (httpd-vhosts.conf). After configuring those, you'd need to map a proper hostname in your windows (or linux/mac os x) /hosts file, for instance, adding this:
127.0.0.1 laravel.dev
Remember that virtual hosts of XAMPP must match proper filepath and hostname (you can use ServerAlias there).
To be honest, this would be the best solution you can actually apply.
