Recently, there are many requests from Magentoexplorer readers about tutorial to setup Magento 2 on Xampp on Windows OS so that we will have Magento 2 testing environment on Localhost. Today I will write about how to install Magento 2 on Xampp server Local host so that you can test Magento 2 right on PC.
Magento 2 requires Composer to install, let me explain why: Composer allows us to better manage Magento 2 system. Previously, when Composer wasn’t available, when you want to use a Magento library, you will need to download that Library and put to folders of your Magento project and that is very inconvenient. In Magento 2, Composer allows you to use library easily by just declaring and Composer will automatically download it to your Magento 2 folder.
Now we will go step by step how to install Magento 2 on Xampp
Step 1: Install Xampp server
This is simple, just like install a normal Windows program. Go to https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html to download and install the latest XAMPP server on your PC
Step 2: Download Magento 2
You can download latest version of Magento 2 here: https://www.magentocommerce.com/download
Upon finishing, unzip all files/folders of Magento to C:\xampp\htdocs and open XAMPP server and start Apache and Mysql as below:
Step 3: Installing Composer
You can download Composer here: https://getcomposer.org/Composer-Setup.exe
This installer will install the latest version of Composer and set up path so that you can call Composer from any directory using command lines
Now follow these steps to install Composer
Click on Next and select Install Shell Menus
Click on Next, now the install will ask for folder that contains php.exe file. By defaul the install will do this for you, however if you need, php.exe is located in C:\xampp\php
Click on install to finish setting up Composer
After the installation is finished, you must enable (php_intl.dll) in php.ini. Open php.ini in C:\xampp\php and uncomment the line by removing “;” before “extension=php_intl.dll” then save the file.
Next, open Magento 2 folder in htdocs, hold “Shift” + Right click and select “Open command window here” to open CMD window. Now type in: composer install to start install Magento 2 to your PC
Note: if you get error, go back to Magento 2 folder in htpdocs and right click to composer.lock => Select “composer update” then start over the installation
Now the program will ask for your Magento username and password, username/password is not your login account, you must get Secure Keys to enter to this field. Secure Keys can get in Magento.com > My Account>Secure keys(under developer section on the left). Here you can see Public Key and Private Key. Puclic key = Username and Private key = Password, use these values to proceed Magento 2 installation (Generate new if you don’t have)
Next, go to PHPmyadmin to create a new Database for your Magento 2 site, on your web browser, go to 127.0.0.1/phpmyadmin.
Note: to avoid errors during Magento 2 installation, open php.ini in C:\xampp\php and edit these lines:
Search for: always_populate_raw_post_data , remove “;” before the line and change it to always_populate_raw_post_data = -1 . Next, open XAMPP => restart Apache and Mysql to apply the changes.
Step 4: Install Magento 2
Enter Magento 2 URL to your browser, for example: localhost/Magento2
Click on Agree and Setup.
Now Magento 2 will start to check if system requirements to install Magento 2
In Add a Database Step, enter Database information you created in PHPmyadmin (you can use root username to avoid error with mysql privileges) leave Database password blank.
In Web Configuration, you can setup URL, Admin URL and some other options.
In customize your store step, select timezone, currency and language you want to use on your store
Next, create Admin account to manage your store
Wait for the installation being processed. When the installation is successful, go to the URL to emter your Magento store
Congratulation, you have successfully installed Magento 2!
Troubleshooter
1st note: If you encounter error with Magento 2 Admin URL, go to PHPmyadmin, search for “core_config_data” and changes these 2 values
- web/unsecure/base_url to http://127.0.0.1/magento2/
- web/secure/base_url to https://127.0.0.1/magento2/
2nd note: If you have error with site’s appearance, no css is loaded or image quality is bad, open Magento 2 folder in C:\Xampp\htdocs, hold Shift + Right Click => Open Windows Command here => Enter this command php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy to get it fixed
Drop a line if you need and help.
Good luck with the installation!
8 Comments
Why use Windows when Debian has a better performance for PHP based apps? I have used Magento with Windows and Debian, but found that with Debian my Magento website was loading faster and had few performance issues. This could also be because I changed the host as well when moving to Debian. I hosted my website on Linux and I had a custom stack that included Apache, Varnish, memcached and other packages.
Hello there Kyler, as you know, most of us use Windows OS system to work so I write this tutorial for users who need to set up Magento on Localhost on Windows for development work.
You can add all 15 extensions needed for magento2. Otherwise a nice tutorial.
Hello Daniel,
I am trying to deploy Mg2 on windows. But I got the following error trying to execute “composer install” command. Do you have any suggestions?
Thanks,
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C:\xampp\htdocs\Magento2>composer install
Loading composer repositories with package information
Installing dependencies (including require-dev) from lock file
Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.
Problem 1
– magento/framework 100.1.3 requires ext-xsl * -> the requested PHP extensio
n xsl is missing from your system.
– magento/framework 100.1.3 requires ext-xsl * -> the requested PHP extensio
n xsl is missing from your system.
– Installation request for magento/framework 100.1.3 -> satisfiable by magen
to/framework[100.1.3].
To enable extensions, verify that they are enabled in your .ini files:
– C:\xampp\php\php.ini
You can also run
php --iniinside terminal to see which files are used by PHP in CLI mode.
Hello Berg, you can fix this error by adding the argument –with-xsl[=DIR] to your configure line (DIR being the libxslt installation directory)
If you are using XAMPP, go to your php root folder, Simply copy all icu* * * *.dll files:
from C:\xampp\php to C:\xampp\apache\bin
If you are using WAMPP
Please copy the all files name like icu.*.*.dll from C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.5.12 to C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.4.9\bin.
On Linux, you can run the following command in CLI
intl extension will start working and the error will be gone!!!
i am still getting error concerning the version of my php .5.6 is required what should i do
Hello there,
What PHP version you are using on XAMPP? You can check by create a php file containing this code:
You can also go to XAMPP website and see what XAMPP version you are using, there you will find the corresponding PHPversion.
Note: Magento 2 requires PHP 5.6.x, 5.5.x, where x is 22 or greater, 7.0.2, 7.0.6–7.0.x. Not supported: PHP 7.1, PHP 5.4
Thank you for this handy tutorial, I succeeded to install Magento 2 on Xampp on Windows 10.