System Requirements For Magento 2:

• Apache 2.2 or 2.4
• XAMPP installed
• PHP version 7.0.13 to 7.2
• Mysql version 5.6 or 5.7
• Google chrome, firefox or Internet Explorer, etc.

Step 1: Installing XAMPP

• Go to the XAMPP installation page on the official website, click here.
• Download and install version 7.2 for windows.

• Save it in the disk and folder of your choice.
• Select all the necessary components that need to be installed along with xampp like Mysql, PHP, etc.
• Open Apache config and go to ‘php.ini.’

• Remove the beginning semicolon ‘;’ from ‘extension=php_intl.dll,’ ‘extension=soap,’ ‘extension=sockets’ and ’extension=php_xsl.dll.’

• Run MySQL and Apache services from the apache control panel

Step 2: Installing Composer

• Install the composer from the official installation page of the composer; visit Download Composer.

• Browse the php.exe file in the xampp/PHP folder and install the composer

Step 3: Download Magento

• Download the Magento version 2.3.5 setup for windows and install

• Extract the installation archive and rename the extracted folder according to your liking.
• Now copy the extracted folder and paste that into your ‘xampp/htdocs’ location.

Step 4: Install Magento

• Start installing Magento by running localhost/Magento.
• Click start readiness check(it will check whether all system requirements are fulfilled or not and generate a report.

• After this, click ‘next’ and start the ‘add database’ step.

• Fill in the details, set “Database services host” to “localhost,” “Database Username” to “root,” and set the database name as you have created in “phpMyAdmin.”

• Next comes the web configuration, set “your store address” to “http://localhost/magento” and “magento admin address” by suffixing your admin username with the “store address.”

• Now comes the “customize your store” phase here. Set the default timezone, default currency and language

• There are advanced configuration option too, which is optional, set it according to your need.
• Now create an account in the next step, using email id, password and username.

• Then comes the final step, click install now to start the installation.

Step 5: Remove Installation Error

• The installation won’t complete, and it will show an error, and you need to replace the function “validateURLScheme” in the filename “\vendor\magento\framework\Image\Adapter\Gd2.php.”

• You can replace this function validateURLScheme in File name: \vendor\magento\framework\Image\Adapter\Gd2.phpprivate function validateURLScheme(string $filename) : bool{$allowed_schemes = [‘ftp’, ‘ftps’, ‘http’, ‘https’];$url = parse_url($filename);if ($url && isset($url[‘scheme’]) && !in_array($url[‘scheme’], $allowed_schemes) && !file_exists($filename) && strlen($url[‘scheme’]) > 1) {return false;}return true;

  }

• Now refresh and click install again.
• When the installation completes, it will show a success message.

Step 6: Launching Admin Panel

• You can launch the admin panel in the browser
• If you still don’t see the admin dashboard
• Change URL validator function in the file “/vendor/magento/framework/View/Element/Template/File/Validator.php:113 “
• Now when you refresh, you will see the login screen

• Fill the credentials and sign in

Step 7: Now, as the last step, we will remove errors in the browser console log and broken image links.

• Open the command prompt
• Go to the project location of Magento, e.g., “xampp/htdocs/magento.”
• Type the following command “php bin/magento setup:upgrade”
• After that type “php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy -f “
• And finally, “php bin/magento c:c.”

Conclusion

Congrats, your Magento 2 store is ready to run on windows localhost. Hope you will find this article helpful; if you follow these steps properly, you will be able to run Magento 2 on windows localhost with xampp; if you cannot set it up, ask for the discussion forums, somebody will help you fix the issues.

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