install linux on windows

To install Ubuntu Linux on windows follow instructions from following site

Open PowerShell as Administrator

wsl --list --verbose

If you see error then run following command

dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:VirtualMachinePlatform /all /norestart

Now enable WSL from Windows Features

Restart PC

Restart-Computer

Install Ubuntu from Microsoft Store

Once you install it will show launch option

Click on Launch or search Ubuntu on windows search

You will be prompted to add new user which will be default user of Ubuntu

Once successfully installed you can open powershell and check installed WSL on your system

To update wsl from version 1 to version 2 (Optional)
You need to run following command

wsl --set-default-version 2

If you get issue you can upgrade kernal component by download and installing update msi

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10#step-4—download-the-linux-kernel-update-package

Once you update wsl kernal
Run following command again

Now update Ubuntu from version 1 to 2

If you get error do enable to Virtual Machine Platform from Windows Features

Now Restart PC

Restart-Computer

If you still get the error then do enable virtualization from BIOS setting

Ubuntu path on windows explorer

\\wsl$\Ubuntu

Update and Upgrade Kernal

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Install Nginx Web Server

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y nginx
sudo service nginx start
sudo service nginx status
sudo service nginx status

Install PHP and its services

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt-cache show php
sudo apt-get install php7.4-cli php7.4-fpm php7.4-curl php7.4-gd php7.4-mysql php7.4-mbstring zip unzip
php --version
php -r "echo 'Hello World' . PHP_EOL;"
php -S localhost:1234
sudo service php7.4-fpm start

sudo vim /etc/php/7.4/fpm/pool.d/www.conf

Find

listen =  127.0.0.1:9000

Replace

listen= /run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock

sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

Find

index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

Replace

index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

Find

#location ~ \.php$ {
# include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
#
# # With php-fpm (or other unix sockets):
# fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
# # With php-cgi (or other tcp sockets):
# fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
#}

Replace

location ~ \.php$
{
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
#
# # With php-fpm (or other unix sockets):
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
# # With php-cgi (or other tcp sockets):
# fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
}

Restart Services

sudo service nginx reload
sudo service php7.4-fpm restart

Create index file in nginx’s default root directory

sudo touch /var/www/html/index.php

sudo vim /var/www/html/index.php

<?php
phpinfo();

Install MySQL server

sudo apt install mysql-server
sudo mysql_secure_installation

Create new user to access mysql from php/python or any other scripting language

if you face issue while connecting to database via php then run following commands by creating new user

CREATE USER 'phpuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '%TGBbgt5';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'phpuser'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Ref: How to install Nginx + php + MySQL on WSL Windows 10 -H2S Media (how2shout.com)

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