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.

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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

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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


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