First Run

This walks through the first five minutes with Rezure: start the services, put a project online, and connect to the database.

1. Start the services

Open the Services page. Nginx and PHP are already installed: hit Start on each and their indicators turn green.

If a service refuses to start, Rezure tells you which port is taken and stops there rather than failing quietly. Port 80 is almost always another local server stack or IIS; stop whichever one is running and try again.

MariaDB isn't bundled: the first time you start it, Rezure downloads it. That's a one-time wait of a minute or two, and only if you need a database.

2. Add a project

There are two ways to get a project listed:

Drop it in www. Create C:\rezure\www\myapp and it shows up on the Projects page as myapp.test. Nothing to configure.

Link a folder you already have. Use Add folder on the Projects page and pick the folder wherever it lives. Rezure shows you the name, the detected stack, the document root it will serve, and the domain, all editable, before saving anything. Nothing is copied or moved; only the path is recorded.

Either way Rezure works out the document root for you. For a Laravel project that's public/, not the folder itself.

3. Open it

Click the project's domain, say myapp.test, and it opens in your browser. Behind that, Rezure generated an Nginx virtual host for the project and added a line to the Windows hosts file. If Windows asks for administrator rights at this point, that's the hosts edit; approve it or the domain won't resolve.

If the domain doesn't load, the usual causes are: Nginx isn't running, the hosts edit was declined, or the browser is caching an old failure: try a private window.

4. Connect to the database

Start MariaDB, then open the Databases page. The bundled server runs with default local credentials:

Host: 127.0.0.1
Port: 3306
User: root
Password: (empty)

In a Laravel .env that's:

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=myapp
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=

New database creates a schema, and each one lists its table count, size, and the project that appears to use it. Open hands the database to whichever SQL client you have installed (TablePlus, DBeaver, HeidiSQL, MySQL Workbench, or Navicat) with the bundled mariadb console always available as a fallback.

An empty password and a root login are fine on a machine only you can reach. Don't reuse this setup anywhere that isn't your own laptop.

5. Switch PHP versions (optional)

The PHP page lists every version Rezure can see and every version it can install. The installable list comes live from php.net's own release feed, so it carries a real SHA-256 per build and never goes stale.

Two ways to add one:

• Install from the app: pick a version and Rezure downloads and verifies it.
• Drop one in: put a PHP build you downloaded yourself into C:\rezure\custom\php and Rezure picks it up on the next scan.

Switching the active version restarts PHP-FPM only. Nginx reconnects on the next request, so your virtual hosts stay up.

Where to go next

That's the core loop. From here, browse the project list, add more PHP versions, read the FAQ, or open an issue on GitHub if something didn't behave the way this page describes.