Windows Dev Box Try 2 2018

Going to list somethings as I go.

The Mac, in spite of Apple, is a great developer experience, here is to hoping the Windows, with the help of Microsoft, grows to be better and better as the improve it via user feedback to make it a great development box.

Links

This started it all https://char.gd/blog/2017/how-to-set-up-the-perfect-modern-dev-environment-on-windows

Webdev on Windows with WSL and VS Code

NPM and Composer install take a long time

Some of this is the Windowsantimalware running. If you go to Windows Security -> Exclusion you can have it not search this folder. More info https://blog.emsisoft.com/en/28620/antimalware-service-executable/

Local PHP

This one works best for me. I tried Valet etc just go lucky with this one https://medium.freecodecamp.org/setup-a-php-development-environment-on-windows-subsystem-for-linux-wsl-9193ff28ae83

Simple vhost file:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName APP_NAME.test
        ServerAdmin foo@foo.com
        DocumentRoot /var/www/devroot/APP_NAME/public
        Redirect permanent / https://APP_NAME.test/
      <Directory /var/www/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
      </Directory>

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:443>
       ServerName APP_NAME.test
        ServerAdmin foo@foo.com
        DocumentRoot /var/www/devroot/APP_NAME/public
        SSLEngine on
        SSLCertificateFile      /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
        SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
      <Directory /var/www/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
      </Directory>

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

Make sure to run:

sudo a2enmod ssl
sudo a2enmod rewrite
service apache2 restart

MariaDB

Get the latest one installed so you have JSON fields etc here

But see bug in section apt-key

If you get this Linux error INSTALL PLUGIN unix_socket SONAME 'auth_socket'; checkout https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/authentication-plugin-unix-socket/

Trouble with root connecting to 127.0.0.1

Connect to mysql on localhost and run

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'%';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'127.0.0.1';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Then set /etc/mysql/my.cnf to

skip-name-resolve       = 1
bind-address           = 0.0.0.0

service mysql restart

APT-KEY

This will not work

connecting dirmngr at '/tmp/apt-key-gpghome.L0JTeGaLOf/S.dirmngr' failed: IPC connect call failed

So run this instead

curl -sL "http://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xF1656F24C74CD1D8" | sudo apt-key add

Putting the key in the search area. [https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/3286#issuecomment-395980628](Putting the key in the search area. https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/3286#issuecomment-395980628

NPM Errors

linux Error: pngquant failed to build, make sure that libpng-dev is installed

Fix is https://github.com/imagemin/pngquant-bin/issues/78

Exclude WSL folders from virus scans

https://www.howtogeek.com/261383/how-to-access-your-ubuntu-bash-files-in-windows-and-your-windows-system-drive-in-bash/

For me this was more about my code folder

Apps

TextExpander

1Password

Get this in the store to start

Windows ClipBoard History

And Alfred replacement! The plugin section has the history one

VPN

ScreenShots

This is built into Windows and works really well. Using the Pen I can also just make the back button do it on the fly.