Laragon

Website

Fast, light local web development environment for Windows. Apache, MySQL, PHP, Node.js bundled together.

PlatformWindows

StackApache / MySQL / PHP

Performance tuning

Adding exceptions to Windows Security for the following paths makes a noticeable speed difference:

• C:\Windows\System32\conhost.exe
• C:\laragon\bin\php
• C:\laragon\bin\apache
• C:\laragon\bin\mysql
• C:\laragon\bin\memcached
• C:\laragon\bin\redis
• C:\laragon\www

Services

In Preferences → Services & Ports, enable Memcached and Redis.

PHP configuration

Edit C:\laragon\bin\php\php-[version]\php.ini:

memory_limit = 256M

MySQL configuration

Edit C:\laragon\bin\mysql\mysql-[version]\my.ini:

key_buffer_size = 2G
max_allowed_packet = 4G