How to install Magento 2 on Windows

Introduction

Magento 2 is widely acknowledged as one of the most robust eCommerce platforms.

In this article, I gonna show you how to install Magento 2.6 locally on Windows using XAMPP.

Pre-installation

Before jumping in, please check on these requirements:

• Must meet the Magento system requirements
• Get authentication keys to the Magento Composer Repository.
• Apache 2.4 or Nginx 1.18
• MySQL 8.0
• PHP 8.1
• Elasticsearch 7.17 or OpenSearch 1.2
• Composer 2.2

🔍 What's Inside:

Here is all the steps to guide you installing Magento2 on a Windows computers

• Setup Environment
• Setup Magento2
• Error Handling

Other Sources:

• https://www.thecoachsmb.com/100-working-step-by-step-guide-to-install-magento-2-4-4-on-windows/
• https://www.cloudways.com/blog/install-magento-2-composer/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ctxLhBoOiI
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWfmRSA1n28&list=PLR3sn-iJXmwbvT8nI-ksGr5z31CScTBJn&index=6
• https://www.magetop.com/blog/install-magento-2-4-on-xampp/#7_Fix_Magento_Theme_Error

Please leave any comments or ask anything if you encounter any errors during the installation process.

Happy coding.