A collection of commands I find useful for running Windows Subsystem Linux.
Backing Up your Linux on Windows Installation
Windows 10 v1903 includes a built-in WSL export/import command. Specifically, wsl --export, which produces a tar and wsl --import, which imports a previously exported tar. You can then move this file between computers.
You can also specify stdin/stdout with -, which should allow you to directly transfer to another machine and import using a remote shell like ssh.
Starting HTML Hosting Services
Ideally these would start when you first start WSL but so far no solution I have found has worked.
Starting Apache web server:
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
If you run into the problem with not enough upload file size change the following line in /etc/php/7.4/apache2/php.ini. Search for the setting first and change it, otherwise add a new line to the file.
upload_max_filesize = 100M
Starting MySQL server:
sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restart sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop
Featured photo by Sora Shimazaki from Pexels
