Windows Subsystem for Linux && Visual Studio Code

[Stephen Partington]

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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