How to Install Orchest on Windows 11

Orchest is a web-based IDE for creating and deploying Symfony applications. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the installation process of Orchest on your Windows 11 machine.

Step 1: Install XAMPP

Orchest requires PHP and MySQL to work properly. Therefore, we need to install XAMPP, which is an easy-to-install Apache distribution that contains PHP, MySQL, and Perl.

  1. Download the latest version of XAMPP for Windows 11 from the official website.
  2. Double-click on the executable file to open the installer.
  3. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation process. Make sure to select PHP and MySQL during the installation.

Step 2: Install Composer

Composer is a dependency manager for PHP. We need to install it to manage the dependencies of our Symfony application.

  1. Download the latest version of Composer for Windows 11 from the official website.
  2. Double-click on the executable file to open the installer.
  3. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation process.

Step 3: Install Orchest

Now that we have installed XAMPP and Composer, we can install Orchest.

  1. Download the latest version of Orchest from the official website.
  2. Extract the downloaded ZIP file to C:\xampp\htdocs. This will create a new directory named orchest.
  3. Open the command prompt in Windows by pressing Win + R and typing cmd. Hit enter to open the command prompt.
  4. Navigate to the orchest folder using the cd command. You can use the following command to navigate to the orchest folder:
cd C:\xampp\htdocs\orchest
  1. Run the following command to install the dependencies of Orchest:
composer install
  1. Once the installation is complete, open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost/orchest. Orchest should now be up and running.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have walked you through the installation process of Orchest on Windows 11. Now, you can create and deploy Symfony applications using the powerful Orchest IDE.