Magento on Windows

If you ever tried to get magento to work on a windows environment you know how painful it is. Just writing this to keep a note as i am sure i will forget the steps soon

Opensource version available on github

https://github.com/magento/magento2/

Composer is required, get dependencies with

composer install

PHP Extensions:

extension=bz2 extension=curl extension=fileinfo extension=gd2 extension=gettext extension=intl extension=mbstring extension=exif ; Must be after mbstring as it depends on it extension=mysqli extension=pdo_mysql extension=pdo_sqlite extension=soap extension=sockets extension=xsl

Default database required as name “magento2” create that first

Command prompt into htdocs\<magento_root>\bin there should be a file named “magento”, assuming php.exe is globally accessible the commands are executable from here.

First need to disable ElasticSearch

php.exe magento module:disable Magento_Elasticsearch6 php.exe magento module:disable Magento_Elasticsearch7 php.exe magento module:disable Magento_Elasticsearch

htdocs\<magento_root>\lib\internal\Magento\Framework\Image\Adapter\GD2.php

Replace the function validateURLScheme with this, old code is there under /**/

private 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)) {
        return false;
    }
    return true;

/*$allowed_schemes = ['ftp', 'ftps', 'http', 'https'];
    $url = parse_url($filename);
    if ($url && isset($url['scheme']) && !in_array($url['scheme'], 
     $allowed_schemes)) {
        return false;
    }
    return true;*/
}

htdocs\<magento_root>\lib\internal\Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template\File\Validator.php

replace isPathInDirectories function with. (old code in comment)

protected function isPathInDirectories($path, $directories)
{
    if (!is_array($directories)) {
        $directories = (array)$directories;
    }
    $realPath = $this->fileDriver->getRealPath($path);
    foreach ($directories as $directory) {
        $realDirectory = $this->fileDriver->getRealPath($directory);
        if ($realDirectory && 0 === strpos($realPath, $realDirectory)) {
           return true;
        }
        /*if (0 === strpos($realPath, $directory)) {
            return true;
        }*/
    }
    return false;
}

finally possible to run setup. Command prompt into htdocs\<magento_root>\bin

php.exe magento setup:install

to create first admin user

php.exe magento admin:user:create