Dino Cajic

I change 3-4 computers each day. I quickly figured out that I can sync my root www wamp folder. It makes it easier to continue work when I go from one computer to the next. The steps to sync your www folder and database tables are quite simple. Make sure that you have WAMP installed on your Windows computer Create two folders in your Dropbox account: www and database. Left click on your WAMP icon, scroll over Apache and click on httpd-vhosts.conf file. Edit the following lines and replace them with your www location DocumentRoot "C:/Users/Dino Cajic/Dropbox/wamp/www" <Directory "C:/Users/Dino Cajic/Dropbox/wamp/www/"> Next you'll need to sync your database. Go to C:/wamp64/bin/mysql/mysql5.7.19/data Copy the contents of the folder and save it in Dropbox/wamp/database Next, go to C:/wamp64/bin/mysql/mysql5.7.19/ and edit my.ini Modify datadir.  Mine went from datadir="c:/wamp64/bin/mysql/mysql5.7.19/data" to  datadir="c:/Use...

Each operating system has it's own issues. I ran into one recently when installing Laravel on my Ubuntu System. Before I begin, this is what I did to get it initialized. I installed LAMP In terminal run php -v If it comes back as 5.6 you'll have to change the version to the latest version, i.e. 7.1 To do that, open your terminal and enter the following $ sudo a2dismod php5.6 $ sudo a2enmod php7.1 $ sudo service apache2 restart Verify that it's the new version: php -v Next, get composer.  Go to  https://getcomposer.org/download/  and follow the instructions. cd into your LAMP root directory Run the following command to create a Laravel project: sudo composer create-project laravel/laravel your-project-name --prefer-dist Wait until it's complete and navigate to your newly created directory/public folder in your browser http://localhost/ your-project-name /public At this point I received an error and it stated: The stream or file "/hom...

It can be quite overwhelming to get started with Laravel on Windows OS. This was meant to guide you through a fresh install. Just imagine you bought a new Windows computer and you want to start web-development, specifically with Laravel. This guide is for you. With that said, lets begin: Install WAMP You need this for PHP, MySQL, Apache Go to  http://www.wampserver.com/en/ Click Download Based on your computer's architecture, select either the 32-bit or 64-bit download option (mine is a 64-bit) Click download directly . If you get an error or sourceforge.net, look at the middle of the page and find:   Looking for the latest version? Download wampserverxx.xx.xx_x64.exe (xxx.x MB) Once you download it, run it and install it. Open it and you'll see the WAMP server logo in the task bar. Hopefully it's green. Left-click on the icon and scroll over PHP , then Version . Click on the latest version of PHP. Currently it's at 7.1.9. At this point, just to make ...