Installing Laravel 4 in Windows 7 with IIS7

Alvaro Trigo

Updated on: February 05, 2024

There are always some boring steps until we can actually start using a framework.
Moreover working with Windows and IIS makes things more difficult/tedious yet. I always find myself having to google these kind of things and this time I decided to keep a record of the steps I followed. This way I won’t have to face the same problems in future installations in other machines. Also, hopefully this can help someone else in the same situation!

Installing-Laravel-4-in-Windows-7-with-IIS7

These are the steps I followed to install Laravel 4 framework to work under my Windows 7 machine with IIS7:

Download the last version of PHP Non Thread Safe for windows.
Place the php folder inside C:/
Rename php.ini-development (or php.production if you are on production) to php.ini
Open php.ini and:
- set fastcgi.impersonate = 1
- set cgi.fix_pathinfo=1
- set cgi.force_redirect = 0
- Uncomment extension_dir = "ext"
- Enable openssl in php.ini by uncommenting: extension=php_openssl.dll
Install the package Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 (version x86: vcredist_x86.exe)

visual-studio

– Download Laravel [from github](https://github.com/laravel/laravel/archive/master.zip) and extract it into the `wwwroot` folder.
– [Download](https://getcomposer.org/Composer-Setup.exe) and install composer for windows in the same directory as `php.exe` is located:

composer-install

Open the console, move to laravel folder and type the command:

composer install
Code language: PHP (php)

laravel4-install-windows

Add permissions for the ISS user for the storage folder:

Make sure you have installed “URL Rewrite 2.0” for IIS 7, if not, download it.
Import .htaccess rules located in the “public” folder of laravel into the URL Rewrite module of IIS 7:

iis7-rewrite-web-config-laravel

Once applied this will generate a file called web.config inside your laravel main folder.

Move the created web.config file into the public folder.

This is the web.config file which was generated in my case:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <rewrite>
            <rules>
                <rule name="Imported Rule 1" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^" ignoreCase="false" />
                    <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
                    </conditions>
                    <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php" />
                </rule>
            </rules>
        </rewrite>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>
Code language: HTML, XML (xml)