Developing on Windows with WSL2 (Subsystem for Linux) and PHP

Developing on Windows with WSL2 (Subsystem for Linux) and a PHP LAMP stack on wsl2. Adam Culp of Beachcasts PHP programming videos shares how to set up a local development environment with PHP on WSL 2, also known as Windows Subsystem for Linux, and installs a Laravel framework project for local development. By installing a full lamp stack on WSL 2. In this Laravel howto we will set up Apache, and PHP on Ubuntu using WSL, for an awesome WSL 2 local dev environment. I also show how to launch VS Code and Windows Explorer from within Ubuntu running inside WSL 2. For information about doing this with Laravel Sail, see https://youtu.be/Zxi157MpoRE Please * LIKE, COMMENT, AND SUBSCRIBE * - and share with others! Key Topics: - Creating a development environment using Ubuntu running on WSL 2 - Installing LAMP in WSL 2 - Creating a symbolic link to a working directory on a Windows host - Setting up the userdir extension for Apache 2 - Install and configure a Laravel based application on Ubuntu within WSL 2 - Launching Windows-based tools from within WSL 2 via CLI For a nice list of equipment I use in my studio, and to support the channel if you make any purchases (doesn't cost you a thing), visit my kit at kit.co: https://kit.co/beachcasts/beachcasts-studio Errata: Let me know if you notice anything that should be errata Associated Links: https://php.net https://laravel.com/ https://apache.org https://code.visualstudio.com https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/ https://beachcasts.com Timeline: 00:00 Intro 01:25 Prerequisites for setting up a development environment in WSL 2 02:17 Installing Apache 2 on Ubuntu in WSL 2 02:55 Install PHP in WSL 2 04:21 Creating a working directory on Windows (host) to use within Ubuntu (WSL) 05:33 Add a symbolic link to the directory on the Windows host 08:13 Activate userdir extension for Apache 2 09:04 Configure the userdir extension 11:47 How to install Composer dependency manager for PHP globally 14:11 Installing the Dom extension (XML extension) for PHP, and unzip utility for Ubuntu 15:47 Creating a Laravel based application on Ubuntu within WSL 17:31 Notes about rendering speeds using WSL 2 18:57 Alternative methods for serving websites from WSL 2 19:55 Launching VS Code from within a WSL 2 environment over CLI 21:06 Launching Windows Explorer from within WSL 2 to view files on Windows host Other Beachcasts videos you might find interesting: WSL 2 with Docker Gettings Started and Docker Desktop Installation https://youtu.be/h0Lwtcje-Jo Getting Started with WSL 2 and Ubuntu on Windows 10 https://youtu.be/X3bPWl9Z2D0 Conference Talk Preparation In 8 Steps for Programmers https://youtu.be/wRwKWKD38g0 How to understand code written by someone else https://youtu.be/lj6GH6yWSlk Ways to advance your programming skills and improve as a developer https://youtu.be/X6abVw8SlZc Make your local DEV environment available on the internet https://youtu.be/xs2o7B_Ex9E AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) Tutorial How-To https://youtu.be/Sr2Mq9Gegew Laravel Model Factory Tutorial using Artisan make:model https://youtu.be/hM135dPJ1dM Authentication in Laravel Tutorial https://youtu.be/2qJkzWJNpjQ Top 5 skills to be a better software developer https://youtu.be/kbX8iATLqxs Install Laravel in Docker container on Ubuntu for beginners https://youtu.be/0HTruhilvcU Getters and Setters accessors in object-oriented programming https://youtu.be/cozignPaoLg Critical programming issues preventing a PHP 7 upgrade https://youtu.be/z13glyDnm6s Behat for beginners functional REST API testing tutorial https://youtu.be/nFNGDhyFrm4 Doctrine ORM one-to-many bi-directional association https://youtu.be/4nEdBDxBc1w PHP Mess Detector static analysis to find PHP code smells https://youtu.be/8fEfHESrK5E Doctrine ORM one-to-many self-referencing association https://youtu.be/4dHZ6cZooOk 10 reasons to become a consultant in a consulting business https://youtu.be/J7gpMYAKmDM 10 bad things about consulting https://youtu.be/ELE0G3e7h3c How to get lines of code in PHP https://youtu.be/HpC-Cvxj6oY Use UUID with Doctrine ORM for DB keys https://youtu.be/SYuLwMwSIpg Make a Create handler middleware https://youtu.be/FIYh-VIWUko Automate Hypermedia creation for PHP REST API https://youtu.be/dX6S-pJVUXI Configure Doctrine ORM https://youtu.be/pFvh5ZNhdOQ Configure PhpStorm for PHP development with Docker https://youtu.be/FQWL-JTZvf4 Create PHP development environment with docker https://youtu.be/2ESAi2vq-80 Help through referrals: Thinking of buying a Tesla electric vehicle? Use this referral link to also get six months of free Supercharging for both of us. Thank you. https://www.tesla.com/referral/tanya21367 I use TubeBuddy to help me manage my YouTube channel. If you're interested, click the following link to check it out. https://www.tubebuddy.com/beachcasts #php #wsl2 #beachcasts