April 2016 – David Madelin's ramblings

In many ways its been a horrible week – we’ve lost some legends of both comedy and music. The great Victoria Wood and the music legend Prince! So this week we kick off the playlist with a nod to Prince from an of Montreal cover of Computer Blue.

This weeks playlist is as follows:

of Montreal – Computer Blue
The Perks – Enough Of This Place
THANKS – Dizzy
Tancred – Bed Case
Fragile Creatures – Fragile Creatures
Love in October – Teenage Evolution
Jerry Williams – Mother
Hanni El Khatib – “Baby’s OK”
Pretty City – Running Around
Magic Potion – “Cola Boyys”
Carnival Youth – Surf
Weaves – Candy
The Academic – Chasers
Marsicans – Swimming
YOKE LORE – HOLD ME DOWN
Spring Break – Degenerative Eloquence
Sheer Mag – Can’t Stop Fighting
ELEL – Animal
Two Year Vacation – Love Will Come Back To You

OK – so that’s a very long title to this post for what is actually a very simple solution.

Like many I’m sure I was eager to try the new build of Windows 10. The first thing I wanted to try when it first booted? Ubuntu and bash of course.

By default, it’s not installed, you have to go into Windows Update Settings, down to ‘For Developers’ and make sure ‘Developer Mode’ is switched on.

Then you have to hit windows key, type ‘Windows Features’ [enter], and scroll to the bottom of the list and tick ‘Windows Subsystem for Linux (Beta)’.

For some I gather you then need to reboot, but on my machine it didn’t.

Anyway, after all that, I thought, ooh, let’s try running Apache on Ubuntu on Windows.

First I typed ifconfig to see what ip address it had, was it different? .. well that command doesn’t work yet so I was thinking maybe apache wouldn’t work either.

So I installed with ‘apt-get install apache2’.

It installs fine, but its not running. It throws the error:

mktemp: failed to create directory via templat ‘/var/lock/apach2.xxxx…’.

Turns out that /var/lock is a symbolic link to /run/lock, which doesn’t exist.

So all you need to do is mkdir /run/lock, restart apache, and hey presto you are up.

But what IP address is it at? .. as Ubuntu is running natively on Windows there is no virtualisation so it has the same IP address as your local machine.

So browsing to localhost should do the trick. If you have another service using that port then edit /etc/apache2/ports.conf and change to a different port.

Hope that helps a few people.

Month: April 2016

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