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It kinda depends on how you set things up. For example, you are referring to Laragon. Did you use that to install PHP on your new computer? If so, are you able to open up a command terminal, and type php -v and get the cli client? If so, I don't think you need anything that you are currently trying to do, so you're making a mess. Also I would recommend this: Install the intelephense plugin or the php tools plugin from devsense Follow the instructions carefully to configure either one The default php extension is borked and basically doesn't work right. Setting you are making aren't relevant to either intelephense or to php tools. These instructions include disabling the default extension that will conflict with intelephense if you don't disable it see https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bmewburn.vscode-intelephense-client This videos is the most complete coverage of setup of a PHP environment on windows i've seen. He demonstrates and advocates for many extensions he finds useful for php web development and what he uses them for. He also shows you how to use WSL integration as an alternative to local php on windows dependence, which has some advantages.