Note : If you want to install and use PHP 7 and Composer within Windows 10 natively , I wrote a guide for that, too !

Since Windows 10 introduced the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), it has become far easier to work on Linux-centric software, like most PHP projects, within Windows.

To get the WSL, and in our case, Ubuntu, running in Windows 10, follow the directions in Microsoft's documentation: Install the Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows 10 , and download and launch the Ubuntu installer from the Windows Store.

Once it's installed, open an Ubuntu command line, and let's get started:

Install PHP 7 inside Ubuntu in WSL

Ubuntu has packages for PHP 7 already available, so it's just a matter of installing them with apt :

1. Update the apt cache with sudo apt-get update
2. Install PHP and commonly-required extensions: sudo apt-get install -y git php7.0 php7.0-curl php7.0-xml php7.0-mbstring php7.0-gd php7.0-sqlite3 php7.0-mysql .
3. Verify PHP 7 is working: php -v .

If it's working, you should get output like:

Install Composer inside Ubuntu in WSL

Following the official instructions for downloading and installing Composer , copy and paste this command into the CLI:

php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');" && \
php -r "if (hash_file('SHA384', 'composer-setup.php') === '544e09ee996cdf60ece3804abc52599c22b1f40f4323403c44d44fdfdd586475ca9813a858088ffbc1f233e9b180f061') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;" && \
php composer-setup.php && \
php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"

To make Composer easier to use, run the following command to move Composer into your global path:

sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

Now you can run composer , and you should get the output:

That's it! Now you have PHP 7 and Composer running inside Ubuntu in WSL on your Windows 10 PC. Next up, dominate the world with some new PHP projects!