Laragon

Quick-app

Spin up full projects like Wordpress, Laravel, Symfony in minutes. You can customize, and extend Quick Apps to streamline your local development workflow with minimal effort.

Spin up a project

Want a Wordpress site? - Just click Menu > Quick app > Wordpress, specify a “Name” (eg. myapp), Laragon will:

  1. Create correspond database: myblog
  2. Download the latest version of Wordpress
  3. Extract the code to C:\laragon\www\myblog
  4. Generate correspond pretty URL: http://myapp.test

Olala, you get what you want effortlessly in a few minutes!!!

WordPress is famous for its “5-minute quick install,” but using Laragon’s “Quick app” feature you can do it in less than 2 minutes.

Source: Best WAMP Server for Local WordPress – Laragon is Easy

Laragon Quick-app - Create a WordPress project

Laragon can handle 7z, tar.gz, zip or composer. Believe or not, Laragon can create a Laravel project in LESS THAN A MINUTE. Just try it: Menu > Quick app > Laravel (zip)

Laragon comes with some pre-defined projects. You can put another projects easily yourself. Just click Menu > Quick app > Configuration and edit the configuration file.

The Configuration file

{LARAGON_ROOT}\usr\sites.conf

# Options
AutoCreateDatabase=true
Cached=true

# Blank: an empty project
Blank=

# WordPress
WordPress=https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz 
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# Laravel

Laravel=composer create-project laravel/laravel %s --prefer-dist
Laravel (zip)=PATH-TO-YOUR-ZIP-FILE
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# Symfony 
Symfony=composer create-project symfony/website-skeleton %s

Drupal=composer create-project --prefer-dist drupal/cms  %s
Drupal (zip)=https://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-10.0.0.tar.gz

Notes

  • `#`: Comment
  • ---: Menu separator
  • AutoCreateDatabase: If true, Laragon will automatically create a database corresponding to the project name.
  • Cached: If true, compressed files from remote servers will be stored in
    {LARAGON_ROOT}\tmp\cached. The next time, Laragon won’t need to download them again.