I need to understand this behavior.
I use xampp for web development. I start to apache server in the xampp gui and then I can start my projects in the browser via localhost...
Since yesterday I have added laravel to my mac book. My project is in the xampp htdocs folder and I want to use it witch xampp. But when the xampp apache server instance is running, nothing is happened to my laravel project until I run php artisan serve in the cmd.
How can I combine larael with xampp? And what exactly does php artisan serve do? Start another apache server instance?