How to install Flarum on Windows

Setup of the environment

For starters we will need to install the right tools to use composer and what needs flarum to be installed.

I. PHP

Go to http://windows.php.net/download/ and download this : http://windows.php.net/downloads/releases/php-5.6.16-nts-Win32-VC11-x86.zip, extract the .zip file and put it into your Windows folder under the name of "php".

You should have that :

II. Composer

Download composer here : https://getcomposer.org/download/ (direct link : https://getcomposer.org/Composer-Setup.exe)

Launch it :

You might run into a :

VCRUNTIME ERROR

Download this : https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145

Select your php.exe :

And also into an :

OPENSSL ERROR

Do this :

Rename php-production.ini (located in your C:\php) into php.ini
On the line 881, remove the ";"
Copy ext\php_openssl.dll to C:\windows\php\

III. cURL

Download cURL by going there : http://www.confusedbycode.com/curl/#downloads

And doing that :

Install it and then, do this :

(If it's not already done) Rename your php.ini-production to php.ini
In line 868, remove the ";".
Copy ext\php_curl.dll to C:\windows\php\

IV. mbstring & exif & fileinfo

In php.ini line 869, 877 & 878, remove the ";".
Copy ext\php_mbstring.dll to C:\windows\php\
Copy ext\php_exif.dll to C:\windows\php\
Copy ext\php_fileinfo.dll to C:\windows\php\

Installing Flarum

Let's dive in.

I. Console

As the default Windows console (the CMD) lacks a lot of thing, i personally use "ConEmu" and i advise you to do the same.

Download it there : https://www.fosshub.com/ConEmu.html

Launch it :

Go to the folder where you want to install flarum with your console using :

cd  /place/where/i/want/to/be

Type in

composer create-project flarum/flarum --stability=beta

Your console will start to act funny :

You will probably reach this phase of the installation :

Could not fetch https://api.github.com/repos/flarum/auth-facebook/zipball/9537a51f475e3f2f8491019f9d5c3514954ec9da, please create a GitHub OAuth token to go over the API rate limit

To do so, follow this link to the Github token creation page : https://github.com/settings/tokens/new, type in your password or log in and uncheck all of the scopes as on the image above :

Click on "Generate Token", you should have something like that :

Make sur to copy it as it is said and paste it back on your console after the

Token (hidden) :

That done, it will resume the flarum installation :

Aaaaand, it is done ! The installation is complete. In the location where you choose to install flarum, you'd normally have something like that :

Have fun with flarum !