WinterCMS is an open source content management system that is built on top of the Laravel framework. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps to install and configure WinterCMS on your Windows 10 machine.
Before you begin, make sure that you have the following prerequisites installed on your Windows 10 machine:
The first step is to download the latest version of WinterCMS from the official website: https://wintercms.com/download. You will need to sign up for a free account to download WinterCMS.
Once you have downloaded the ZIP file, extract it to a folder on your machine.
WinterCMS requires several dependencies to be installed. To do this, open a command prompt or terminal window and navigate to the extracted folder using the cd command.
Next, run the following command to install the required dependencies:
composer install
This will install all the required dependencies for WinterCMS.
WinterCMS uses a MySQL or MariaDB database to store its data. You will need to create a database and a user with privileges to access it.
Open your MySQL or MariaDB client and run the following commands to create a database and a user:
CREATE DATABASE wintercms;
CREATE USER 'winteruser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wintercms.* TO 'winteruser'@'localhost';
Make sure to replace winteruser and password with your desired username and password for the database.
WinterCMS uses environment variables to store configuration information. Open the .env file in the extracted folder and update the following variables:
APP_URL=http://localhost
DB_DATABASE=wintercms
DB_USERNAME=winteruser
DB_PASSWORD=password
Make sure to update the values according to your setup.
WinterCMS comes with a set of database migrations that need to be run in order to create the required tables in the database.
To run the migrations, use the following command:
php artisan winter:up
This will create the required tables in the database.
Finally, you can run the WinterCMS development server using the following command:
php artisan serve
This will start the development server at http://localhost:8000.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install WinterCMS on your Windows 10 machine. You can now start building your website using WinterCMS. For more information on how to use WinterCMS, please refer to the official documentation: https://wintercms.com/docs.
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