Orchest is a web-based IDE for creating and deploying Symfony applications. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the installation process of Orchest on your Windows 11 machine.
Orchest requires PHP and MySQL to work properly. Therefore, we need to install XAMPP, which is an easy-to-install Apache distribution that contains PHP, MySQL, and Perl.
Composer is a dependency manager for PHP. We need to install it to manage the dependencies of our Symfony application.
Now that we have installed XAMPP and Composer, we can install Orchest.
C:\xampp\htdocs
. This will create a new directory named orchest
.Win + R
and typing cmd
. Hit enter to open the command prompt.orchest
folder using the cd
command. You can use the following command to navigate to the orchest
folder:cd C:\xampp\htdocs\orchest
composer install
http://localhost/orchest
. Orchest should now be up and running.In this tutorial, we have walked you through the installation process of Orchest on Windows 11. Now, you can create and deploy Symfony applications using the powerful Orchest IDE.
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