Ultimate & Simple guide to set up phpMyAdmin in Laragon Server

📋 Table of Contents

1. 🤠 What is Laragon
2. 🛠️ Install Laragon
3. 🧭 Set Up phpMyAdmin in Laragon

🤠 What is Laragon?

Laragon is a fast, powerful, and lightweight development environment for PHP, MySQL, Node.js, Python, Java, Go, Ruby, and more. It is designed to make development quick, fun, and productive.

With Laragon, you can set up a fully-functional development environment in a matter of minutes. It comes pre-configured with popular tools like Apache, MySQL, PHP, and more.

🛠️ Install Laragon

Step 1: Download Laragon

1. Go to the official Laragon website.
2. Download the latest version of Laragon.

Step 2: Install Laragon

1. Run the installer you downloaded.

2. Follow the installation prompts:

   • Choose the installation directory (default is C:\laragon).
   • Select the components you want to install (Apache, MySQL, PHP, etc.).

3. Complete the installation process.

   Note: By default, Laragon will install the selected components and set up a basic development environment for you.

🧭 Set Up phpMyAdmin in Laragon

Step 1: Start Laragon

1. Open Laragon from the Start Menu or from the installation directory.
2. Click the "Start All" button to start all services (Apache, MySQL, etc.).

Step 2: Download phpMyAdmin

1. Download phpMyAdmin from the official phpMyAdmin website.
2. Extract the downloaded zip file to C:\laragon\etc\apps\.
3. Rename the extracted folder to phpMyAdmin.

Step 4: Access phpMyAdmin

Open your web browser and go to http://localhost/phpmyadmin. Log in using the MySQL root user and password (default password is empty).

By following these steps, you should have a fully functional Laragon environment with phpMyAdmin set up and ready to use. Happy coding! 😍🤟