WSL2

I setup a sample Laravel app with Sail. Works, but I have to disable local Apache and MySQL to free up their ports. Should be able to configure the virtual host to use different host ports, but I couldn’t figure out the syntax.

Twitter pointed out that the slowness is due to file system syncing.

To fix this you have to start using the WSL2 file access. So instead of C:/projects/hello-world (for example), you should use the linux mounted one. Try \wsl$ in your file explorer address bar.

— Bernardo (@bernardohulsman) May 31, 2022

I have to investigate this for Laravel, and URL mapping. Would I have to setup PHP, Nginx etc directly in the VM? Then I’m losing the benefit of Sail configuring that for me.

I’m probably missing something obvious.