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Hi plumrocket!

Thanks for shared article! I will check it later.
My experience from last year is that there is a huge difference in performance when docker is installed on Windows and on Linux. I spent much time testing and the best thing which I found is Docker on Linux.
If you want to have the projects outside of devilbox folder, you can create a folder (i.e. www) outside, but in the Ubuntu root directory and do the settings in .env

HOST_PATH_HTTPD_DATADIR=/www

Do backup of .env file. When you update the DevilBox in most cases you will have new .env which should be used but you will need there the settings from old .env.
No, this nickymeuleman.netlify.app is not my website. I used it myself as a tutorial.

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Hello Amida,

Got it. Ok. Thanks for another hint.

That’s what I thought, I think that Windows version should be slower too.

I also don’t see a point of having WSL2 with a Docker on Windows. If Ubuntu shell is only used to execute docker-compose command, then you can do the same from a regular Windows PowerShell. Unless I am missing something.

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Hi,

While running Docker and Devilbox under WSL 2 / Ubuntu 20.04, when I create a new project folder inside the data/www folder (for example ./data/www/myproj), to access the contents of the project folder with a Windows browser, I have to first edit the Windows hosts file like so: “127.0.0.1 myproj” and then shutdown and restart WSL 2 (apparently on boot, WSL 2 regenerates the /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf files, so simply editing /etc/hosts is not adequate).

Is there anything I can do to make the Devilbox vhosts / Auto DNS work, so that I don’t have to edit the Windows hosts file every time I add a new project folder? Is this something that is broken in WSL 2 and will be fixed in a few months? Is it a Windows networking / DNS issue? Is it something that is broken in Devilbox? See #9 below…

Host is Windows 10 Pro:
Microsoft Windows Version 2004 (OS Build 19041.264)

Please accept my apologies if I posted this to the wrong forum. I wanted to check here before submitting a ticket on the github cytopia issues system.

I have the following setup:

1 .env identical to env-example with the following exceptions:
LOCAL_LISTEN_ADDR=127.0.0.1:
HOST_PATH_SSH_DIR=/c/Users/myuser/.ssh
HOST_PORT_BIND=53
BIND_LOG_DNS_QUERIES=1

2 Add to Windows hosts file: c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
127.0.0.1 myproj.loc

2 Start WSL 2
Windows-key Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> wsl -l -v
NAME STATE VERSION

  • Ubuntu-20.04 Running 2

3 Docker installed on WSL 2; Docker Desktop NOT installed
$ sudo apt list --installed | grep docker
docker-ce-cli/focal,now 5:19.03.10~3-0~ubuntu-focal amd64 [installed]
docker-ce/focal,now 5:19.03.10~3-0~ubuntu-focal amd64 [installed]

5 Start Docker from WSL 2 terminal
$ sudo service docker start

  • Starting Docker: docker [ OK ]

6 Run devilbox
cd /c/Users/myuser/code/devilbox docker-compose up bind httpd php

7 Create project folder and index.htm file in document root
mkdir -p data/www/myproj/htdocs cp index.htm data/www/myproj/htdocs/

8 Windows Firefox visit ‘localhost’
http://localhost/
Devilbox intranet home page is displayed
Devilbox v1.7.0 (2020-03-24)

9 Click Virtual Hosts link (vhosts.php), the following is displayed
myproj ./data/www/myproj/htdocs OK myproj.loc

Previously, when I did NOT have a myproj.loc entry in the Windows hosts file, the following was displayed:
myproj ./data/www/myproj/htdocs ERR No Host DNS record found. Add the following to /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 myproj.loc

11 Contents of hosts file:
$ cat /etc/hosts

This file was automatically generated by WSL. To stop automatic generation of this file, add the following entry to /etc/wsl.conf:

[network]

generateHosts = false

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 yoga.localdomain yoga

10.0.0.34 host.docker.internal
10.0.0.34 gateway.docker.internal
127.0.0.1 kubernetes.docker.internal
127.0.0.1 myproj.loc

The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts

::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

12 Contents of resolv.conf file
$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 172.16.238.100
nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver 8.8.8.8