WSL setup

This was created to document the setting up of a WSL from the initial setup. The following are assumed already done and set up:

• Installed and configured WSL2
• Using an Ubuntu distribution

WSL DNS management

sudo rm /etc/resolv.conf
sudo bash -c 'echo "nameserver 8.8.8.8" > /etc/resolv.conf'
sudo bash -c 'echo "[network]" > /etc/wsl.conf'
sudo bash -c 'echo "generateResolvConf = false" >> /etc/wsl.conf'
sudo chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf

And shutdown wsl

wsl --shutdown

disable IPv6 addressing

on system

Edit /etc/sysctl.conf

sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf

paste at bottom

#disable ipv6
net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1
net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6=1
net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6=1

make changes effetctive

sudo sysctl -p

on SSH

edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config

sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config

and modify

AddressFamily inet

restart ssh

/scripts/restartsrv_sshd

setting up repositories and add git, php and node

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa -y
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php -y
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/apache2 -y
curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_lts.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y && sudo apt autoremove && sudo apt autoclean
sudo apt install git php nodejs -y

composer

EXPECTED_CHECKSUM="$(wget -q -O - https://composer.github.io/installer.sig)"
php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
ACTUAL_CHECKSUM="$(php -r "echo hash_file('sha384', 'composer-setup.php');")"
if [ "$EXPECTED_CHECKSUM" != "$ACTUAL_CHECKSUM" ]
then
    >&2 echo 'ERROR: Invalid installer checksum'
    rm composer-setup.php
    exit 1
fi
sudo php composer-setup.php --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
rm composer-setup.php

change npm -g folder (to avoid calling sudo on npm -g)

mkdir ~/.npm
npm config set prefix '~/.npm'
export PATH="$(npm config get prefix)/bin:$(composer config -g home)/vendor/bin:$PATH"
source ~/.profile

git

git config --global init.defaultBranch "main"
git config --global user.email "YOUR_EMAIL"
git config --global user.name "YOUR_USERNAME"
git config --global pull.ff only

setting /var/www/ forlder and user permissions

sudo apt install acl
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www
sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www
sudo chmod g+s /var/www
sudo setfacl -d -m g::rwx /var/www
sudo setfacl -d -m o::rx /var/www
sudo usermod -g www-data $USER

apache mod installtion and vhost setting

sudo a2enmod vhost_alias proxy_http expires headers ssl rewrite
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/wildcard.local.conf

copy the following and save the file

<Directory "/var/www/*/public">
  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
  AllowOverride All
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
  Require all granted
</Directory>
<VirtualHost *:80>
  UseCanonicalName Off
  ServerAlias *.local
  ServerAlias *
  VirtualDocumentRoot /var/www/%0/public
</VirtualHost>

change "/var/www/*/public" and /var/www/%0/public according to necessities

sudo a2ensite wildcard.local
sudo service apache2 restart

On the hosts file remember to add IPv6 version of the addresses

laravel required php libs

sudo apt install openssl php-common php-curl php-json php-mbstring php-mysql php-xml php-zip

OMZ + powerlevel10k

sudo apt install zsh -y
 sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)" "" --unattended
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-$HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/themes/powerlevel10k
nano ~/.zshrc

Set the following and save the file

ZSH_THEME="powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k"
export PATH="$(npm config get prefix)/bin:$(composer config -g home)/vendor/bin:$PATH"

Restart zsh

exec zsh

MySQL

Install .deb file from https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/repo/apt/

sudo dpkg -i mysql-apt-config_**
sudo apt update
sudo apt install mysql-server
sudo service mysql stop
sudo usermod -d /var/lib/mysql/ mysql
sudo service mysql start
sudo mysql_secure_installation

Starting script

nano $HOME/doinit

copy the following

#!/bin/bash

git -C ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-$HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/themes/powerlevel10k pull
sudo sysctl -p
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade -y --allow-downgrades
sudo apt autoremove -y
sudo apt autoclean -y
sudo composer selfupdate
composer global update
npm -g update

sudo service apache2 restart
sudo service php8.0-fpm start
sudo service php8.0-fpm restart
sudo service mysql restarting and save the file

give file execution permissions for current user

chmod u+x $HOME/doinit

to use it

$HOME/doinit

Cypress

to use Cypress it might be needed to do as follows

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y libgbm-dev