# My Laravel development server could not start

**URL:** <https://forum.radsystems.io/t/my-laravel-development-server-could-not-start/888>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [June 5, 2022, 11:02pm UTC](https://forum.radsystems.io/t/my-laravel-development-server-could-not-start/888 "2022-06-05T23:02:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![lawalthb](https://forum.radsystems.io/user_avatar/forum.radsystems.io/lawalthb/32/523_2.png) [@lawalthb](https://forum.radsystems.io/u/lawalthb)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2022, 11:02pm UTC](https://forum.radsystems.io/t/my-laravel-development-server-could-not-start/888/1 "2022-06-05T23:02:33Z")

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I am using;  
Composer version 2.3.6 2022-06-01 21:57:13  
NPM  
C:\Users\flex plast3\>npm -v  
8.5.5  
Node  
C:\Users\flex plast3\>node -v  
v16.14.2

 ![image](https://forum.radsystems.io/uploads/default/original/1X/5777dc629e96b143ce34bf636d75e23d565666c7.png)

Kindly assist me to get started  
have watched and follow this video steps:  
[Radsystems Tutorial - Installing Radsystems Studio project requirements - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATT65r0FD28&t=235s)

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**Author:** ![lawalthb](https://forum.radsystems.io/user_avatar/forum.radsystems.io/lawalthb/32/523_2.png) [@lawalthb](https://forum.radsystems.io/u/lawalthb)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2022, 12:07am UTC](https://forum.radsystems.io/t/my-laravel-development-server-could-not-start/888/2 "2022-06-06T00:07:29Z")

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Have solved it,  
i was using XAMPP before, which is php version 8+,  
by the time i switched my development environment to Laragon, composer was still pointing to xampp php version 8, so i have to downgrade the php version in xampp folder

Thanks