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+# Laravel Xampp Setup (Windows & Mac)
+
+## Install Xampp
+Install Xampp from https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html
+
+- Run the Xampp installer and open the Xampp control panel
+- Make sure that you enable the Apache and MySQL services
+- On mac you need to click "Start" on the Home tab, "Enable" on the Network tab and "Mount" on the Location Tab. Click "Explore" on the location tab to open your Xampp/Lampp folder
+
+## Install Composer
+Go to https://getcomposer.org/download
+
+- On Windows, download and run the installer
+- On Mac, copy the php commands and run in the terminal. Then copy the mv command and run in terminal. You can also install composer with Homebrew
+
+## Create a New Laravel Project With Composer
+
+Open a terminal in the htdocs folder. htdocs is where all of your local projects go.
+
+htdocs folder location:
+- **Windows** - C:\Xampp\htdocs
+- **Mac** - /opt/lampp/htdocs
+
+```
+composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel PROJECT_NAME
+```
+## Virtual Host Setup
+
+We now need to create a virtual host for our project
+
+## Edit Hosts File
+
+- **Windows** - C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts
+- **Mac** - /etc/hosts
+
+Add these lines
+
+```
+127.0.0.1	localhost
+127.0.0.1	PROJECT_NAME.test
+
+```
+
+## Edit Virtual Hosts File
+
+- **Windows** - C:/xampp/apache/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
+```
+<VirtualHost *:80>
+    DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs"
+    ServerName localhost
+</VirtualHost>
+
+<VirtualHost *:80>
+    DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/PROJECT_NAME/public"
+    ServerName PROJECT_NAME.test
+ </VirtualHost>
+```
+
+- **Mac** - /opt/lampp/etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
+```
+<VirtualHost *:80>
+    DocumentRoot /opt/lampp/htdocs
+    ServerName localhost
+    ServerAlias www.localhost
+</VirtualHost>
+
+
+<VirtualHost *:80>
+    DocumentRoot /opt/lampp/htdocs/PROJECT_NAME/public
+    ServerName PROJECT_NAME.test
+    ServerAlias www.PROJECT_NAME.test
+</VirtualHost>
+```
+
+### Restart Apache with the Xampp panel
+
+Now visit http://laravel.test ot htttp://laravel.test:8080 on Mac
+
+## If it does not work, make sure virtual hosts file is enabled in httpd.conf
+- **Windows** - C:/xampp/apache/conf/httpd.conf
+- **Mac** - /opt/lampp/etc/httpd.conf
+
+Remove the # from the beginning of this line
+
+```
+#Include etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
+```
+
+Save the file