6 posts tagged with "wsl"

When working with a Docker container, data can be persistent or not. Imagine you're creating a localhost website with Joomla, Wordpress or any other tool (Laravel, Symfony, etc.).

You've perfectly created the various Docker files needed to run the local site, you've run the command docker compose up --detach to start the containers and now you're busy installing the site. After a few moments, your local site is up and you can start developing its functionalities.

By default, if you haven't taken any precautions, the moment you stop the container (docker compose down), you'll kill your site, i.e. by default, having not taken care to save your data (your site, your database), everything will be lost and reset the next time you run docker compose up --detach. Well... Maybe that was your wish (something totally ephemeral); maybe not;

In this article, we will learn how to use Docker to install Joomla on your localhost and start a new website in seconds (don't want to wait? Jump to the Final docker-compose.yml chapter).

I will use a Linux console (I'm running WSL on my Windows computer and I have chosen Ubuntu for my distribution) but since Docker can also be used on Windows, you can perfectly run, exactly, the same commands in an MS-DOS / Powershell console.

https://dev.to/mefaba/installing-wsl-on-another-drive-in-windows-5c4a

By default, the Linux distribution is installed on your C: drive. If, like me, you have a D: drive with almost nothing on it, it can be really interesting to move Linux on that second drive.

Did you know it is possible to use the Windows Explorer program and navigate on your Linux filesystem?

An easy way to open your current folder in Windows Explorer is to call the explorer.exe binary.

So, f.i., in your Linux console, open any existing folder like cd ~/repositories/blog and then, just run explorer.exe ..

https://www.nextofwindows.com/how-to-enable-wsl2-ubuntu-gui-and-use-rdp-to-remote https://medium.com/@riley.kao/wsl2-ubuntu20-04-gui-remote-desktop-connection-rdp-2bbd21d2fa71

When WSLg is enabled, it's possible to access to the graphical user interface of your Linux distribution (in my case, it's Ubuntu).

If you don't have xrdp yet, you can install it by running:

sudo apt update && sudo apt -y upgrade
sudo apt-get install -y xrdp

The situation: you wish to run a piece of standard PHP code (no dependency) like the one below:

<?php

echo "<h2>Incorrect, silent bug</h2>";

print_r(json_decode(utf8_decode("Ipso lorem"), true));

echo "<h2>Incorrect, we got an exception</h2>";

print_r(json_decode(utf8_decode("Ipso lorem"), true, 512, JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR));