Windows Subsystem for Linux && Visual Studio Code

[James Dugger]

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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>> James
>>
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