if you want to install a local ispconfig server on your windows system, maybe for testing / dev work. maybe you don't want to use a full vmware / virtualbox etc vps for it, and just want to run in in a WSL linux shell. if you've already tried doing this with the new automated install, you'll have noticed it doesn't work. the first problem you'll notice is with the mysql password generation which starts throwing errors. the problem is the automated install script uses systemd commands, which just aren't available. if your using WSL version 1, you can't fix this, their is no systemd support available, you'll need to update your system to WSL2. i'm not giving instructions for that here, there's plenty of them you can google. i'm assuming your starting point is a windows system already running WSL2. if you follow the automated install, you'll still notice the same problems, this is because you need to add systemd support into the instance. i downloaded the ubuntu 20.04.appx file, extracted it, and imported that into wsl, giving it the instance name 'ispconfig', i now start it from a .bat file containing the line 'wsl --distribution ispconfig', but installing ubuntu/debian from the microsoft store should be no different, apart from the final step.... first, start your wsl linux instance, since i start from the .bat file, i am straight into the instance as root, if you're starting the ubuntu/debian app directly, you'll be as a normal user, and will need to sudo to root. then install the required micrososft packages: Code: wget https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/20.04/packages-microsoft-prod.deb -O packages-microsoft-prod.deb sudo dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb rm packages-microsoft-prod.deb apt-get update; apt-get install -y apt-transport-https apt-get install -y dotnet-sdk-5.0 use this 1st line for debian (10), follow instructions here for earlier debian releases: Install .NET on Debian - .NET | Microsoft Docs Code: wget https://packages.microsoft.com/config/debian/10/packages-microsoft-prod.deb -O packages-microsoft-prod.deb the final line installs the entire .net sdk, if you're ok with just the runtime, you can change this package to aspnetcore-runtime-5.0 instead now we need to add the repo for the wsl packages (wsl-transdebian) Code: wget -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/wsl-transdebian.gpg https://arkane-systems.github.io/wsl-transdebian/apt/wsl-transdebian.gpg chmod a+r /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/wsl-transdebian.gpg cat << EOF > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/wsl-transdebian.list deb https://arkane-systems.github.io/wsl-transdebian/apt/ $(lsb_release -cs) main deb-src https://arkane-systems.github.io/wsl-transdebian/apt/ $(lsb_release -cs) main EOF apt update then install the final package: Code: install -y systemd-genie the final step is to automatically start genie on every shell session, to do this, i edit roots' .profile file, adding the lines: Code: # Are we in the bottle? if [[ ! -v INSIDE_GENIE ]]; then read -t 3 -p "yn? * Preparing to enter genie bottle (in 3s); abort? " yn echo if [[ $yn != "y" ]]; then echo "Starting genie:" exec /usr/bin/genie -s fi fi this will start genie every time unless you stop it within the first 3 seconds. again, if you're using the normal ubuntu/debian wsl app link to start your shell, you may need to add this to both root's .profile and your normal user account's .profile. i've not tested this using a microsoft store installed instance. from this point on, just follow the automated install instructions as normal. i now have a working ispconfig install on a wsl instance, and access the control panel directly from a windows browser using https://localhost:8080. note that obviously this will only use a self-signed cert, but now you have a fully working website dev environment without installing xamp on windows, and it's much easier to create new sites, switch php versions etc than with xamp / flywheel local etc. credit: after repeated failures, a working systemd setup was put together from instruction pulled from these pages: GitHub - arkane-systems/genie: A quick way into a systemd "bottle" for WSL Install .NET on Ubuntu - .NET | Microsoft Docs wsl-transdebian | A repository for WSL-only apt packages. (arkane-systems.github.io) Automatically start genie on every shell session · arkane-systems/genie Wiki · GitHub
