How to Install Leantime on Windows 10

Leantime is a project management software that is designed to help you and your team manage projects efficiently. Installing Leantime on Windows 10 is a fairly simple process if you follow the steps listed below.

Prerequisites

Before installing Leantime on your computer, you need to make sure that you have the following prerequisites:

  • WAMP server (or any other Apache, MySQL, and PHP server)
  • Git (a version control system)

Steps to Install Leantime

Once you have the prerequisites installed on your system, you can follow the below steps to install Leantime:

  1. Download the latest version of the Leantime source code from their official website.
  2. Extract the downloaded Zip file to a folder on your computer.
  3. Open the WAMP server and make sure the Apache and MySQL services are running.
  4. Open a terminal or command prompt and navigate to the www folder of your WAMP server installation. For example, if your WAMP server is installed in C:\wamp64, then the default folder would be C:\wamp64\www.
  5. Clone the Leantime source code from GitHub by running the following command:
git clone https://github.com/Leantime/leantime.git
  1. Once the cloning process is complete, navigate to the root folder of the Leantime installation by running the following command:
cd leantime
  1. Install the dependencies by running the following command:
composer install
  1. Copy the .env.example file to .env by running the following command:
cp .env.example .env
  1. Generate a new application key by running the following command:
php artisan key:generate
  1. Update the values of the database configuration in the .env file according to your MySQL database settings. Replace the following lines:
DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=homestead
DB_USERNAME=homestead
DB_PASSWORD=secret

with your MySQL database settings, such as:

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=localhost
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=leantime
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=
  1. Create a new database named leantime in your MySQL database by running the following command:
CREATE DATABASE leantime;
  1. Migrate the database tables by running the following command:
php artisan migrate
  1. Generate the bootstrap cache by running the following command:
php artisan optimize
  1. Finally, access the Leantime installation by opening a web browser and navigating to http://localhost/leantime/public. You should see the Leantime login page.

Conclusion

Leantime is now installed and ready for use on your Windows 10 system. You may log in using the default credentials:

We recommend changing the default credentials after logging in for security reasons.