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Author: James Dugger
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Subject: Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux && Visual Studio Code
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On Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 1:43 PM James Dugger <> wrote:

> What does Apache error_log and access_log say
>
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 1:37 PM <> 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 <>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> This might help.
>>>
>>> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-install
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 3:41 PM <> 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 <> 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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