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ArieKant's avatar

Laravel on a Apache webserver?

I am a newbee at Laravel and read already some introductions to Laravel. I now develop new websites on a Apache webserver with PHP 8.2, Jquery, HTML and CSS and for programming I use Apache Netbeans.

How does this work with Laravel?

Must I install Laravel on the webserver or on my local Windows 11 machine?

All I can find out is that I must install all of it (Laravel, composer and PHP) on my local machine, is this the way to work with Laravel?

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omeratayilmaz's avatar

I'm not entirely sure what you're asking, but just keep in mind that Laravel is a framework—behind the scenes, it's still just PHP.

And yes, you'll first need a package manager (Laravel uses Composer for this).

There are some tools that can automate these steps, but I wouldn't recommend using them if you're just starting out. (https://herd.laravel.com/windows)

ArieKant's avatar

I know Laravel is a PHP framework but what I don't get is the following:

I have in my own setup only Apache Netbeans on my computer installed and the rest (PHP etc) is installed on our webserver. I work local in Apache Netbeans to edit some PHP files and upload them within Apache Netbeans to our webserver.

As far as what I read so far is that with Laravel you install everything such as PHP, Laravel, composer etc.) on your local (Windows) machine?

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