Windows Subsystem for Linux && Visual Studio Code

Mon Dec 30 20:11:48 MST 2019

Chrome has its own DNS. That is meant to supplement the systems DNS.

On Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 8:05 PM <techlists at phpcoderusa.com> wrote:

>
> Ok,
>
> I failed to edit the Windows hosts file.  I edited the Linux hosts file.
> So I finally realized I needed to edit the Windows hosts file.... that is
> done.
>
> Still unable to pull up the site.  Then I recalled the issue I had
> sometime ago.... Chrome does not like this configuration for some reason.
>
> I am able to view the site in FireFox but not in Chrome.
>
> Not sure why... would like to understand why there is this problem.
>
> Anyone have any thoughts?
>
> I am running Win 10 Pro with the Windows Subsystem for Linux.  I'm running
> Ubuntu 16.04LTS with a LAMP configuration.
>
> I've set the Windows Hosts file to 127.0.0.1 for each of the vhost on the
> WSL.
>
> I can enter the IP in Chrome and see the site, however when I enter
> something like MyFramework.dev in the browser URL I get
> This site can’t be reached
>
> However I can visit the dev site just fine in FireFox.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks!!
>
>
>
>
>
> On 2019-12-30 16:46, James Dugger wrote:
>
> What type of site.  If WordPress You may need to set AllowOveride
> directive in the <directory> section
>
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 1:43 PM James Dugger <james.dugger at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What does Apache error_log and access_log say
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 1:37 PM <techlists at phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> chown -R www-data:www-data did not fix the problem.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2019-12-30 15:50, James Dugger wrote:
>>>
>>> Try setting chown -R www-data:www-data on the document root
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 12:48 PM Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> This might help.
>>>>
>>>> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-install
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 3:41 PM <techlists at phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been trying to locate a command that will tell me which version
>>>>> of the WSL I am running.  The best answer I read was the WSL is tied to the
>>>>> Windows updates.... which I get regularly.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a vhost in /etc/apache2/sites-available/myframework.dev.conf
>>>>> with the following excerpt
>>>>>
>>>>> ...
>>>>>
>>>>> DocumentRoot /var/www/html/myframework.dev/public_html
>>>>> ServerName www.myframework.dev
>>>>>
>>>>> ...
>>>>>
>>>>> I enabled myframework.dev.conf and restarted apache...
>>>>>
>>>>> I edited /etc/hosts and added the following 2 lines :
>>>>>
>>>>> 127.0.0.1       www.myframework.dev
>>>>>
>>>>> 127.0.0.1       myframework.dev <http://www.myframework.dev>
>>>>>
>>>>> When I enter the url www.myframework.dev into my browser, I get a
>>>>> message:
>>>>> This site can't be reached
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I set the file permissions : chmod 755 -R html/ and ownership : chown
>>>>> -R myuser:myuser html
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm sure it much be something simple....
>>>>>
>>>>> Note : If I go to localhost in the browser I see a page located
>>>>> at /var/www/html/index.php
>>>>>
>>>>> Any help is much appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>> Keith
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2019-12-19 02:07, James Dugger wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Are you on the latest version of Windows 10 with WSL2? If not there
>>>>> are huge differences.  Prior to WSL2 and the latest Windows 10 developer
>>>>> mode, the WSL sent linux system calls to an emulator that the Windows NT
>>>>> kernel could understand.  However with the advent of the latest Windows 10
>>>>> updates and WSL2 (June 2019) Microsoft installs a full linux kernel with
>>>>> the WSL2 distribution you chose.  I think the latest for Ubuntu now is
>>>>> 18.04 on the Microsoft Store.  When launched for projects saved and running
>>>>> in the WSL Visual Studio Code now knows the project is a Linux project open
>>>>> with the Linux binaries enabled.  You can see this when the bottom left
>>>>> screen lights up in the highlighted text color and indicates WSL.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have not noticed a lag in VS Code in on either Windows or Linux
>>>>> based projects (lasts versions) . But my system is a core i7.  Haven't had
>>>>> to reboot either.
>>>>> I am running the latest Windows 10 Version.  with Hyper V shut down
>>>>> and VirtualBox installed as a Hypervisor.  I don't use the native WSL as a
>>>>> native webserver for PHP applications.  I use Vagrant and VirtualBox for
>>>>> building guest machines to run/develop those apps.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regarding Apache I assume you are setting up separate document root
>>>>> directories for each site declared in different virtual hosts files or
>>>>> section of code in the main apache conf file  or separate conf files.
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you have corresponding settings in the /etc/hosts file that are
>>>>> correctly resolving to your virtual host entries?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 5:03 PM <techlists at phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> AZ Pete mentioned the Windows Powershell and the Visual Studio Code
>>>>>> editor.  I thought I would branch off of that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm not a Python developer. I'm a PHP developer.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In the past I have always used an external LAMP server for
>>>>>> development.  Currently I have an old i3 laptop that was upgraded to an
>>>>>> SSD.  Does the job just fine.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A month or so ago I thought I would experiment with the Windows
>>>>>> Subsystem for Linux by installing Apache, MySql, and PHP.  Worked well,
>>>>>> with two exceptions.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I used Visual Studio Code to edit the code "remotely".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I had two issues which I do not recall completely.  1) When I would
>>>>>> bring the computer out of screen saver mode it would run really slow and
>>>>>> require a reboot.  I'm guessing  the subsystem went to sleep and was not
>>>>>> able to wake up..... 2) As I recall I configured a number of vhosts
>>>>>> off of /var/www/html/ which worked well except PHP reported the Docroot was
>>>>>> the same as the localhost for all three vhosts, even though they
>>>>>> were configured with different Docroots. I wonder if there might be a
>>>>>> Apache setting that will correct this?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The subsystem reports its running Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think it might be time to dig a little deeper.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
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>>>>>
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