Manual talk:Running MediaWiki on Windows Subsystem for Linux

You have to find the IP address of the virtual machine powering your Linux distribution with: ip addr | grep eth0 as shown in Accessing network applications with WSL | Microsoft Docs and use this address instead of localhost.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/core.git
Should use URL based on:  
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/core/ when cloning.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/skins/Vector.git
Should use URL based on: 
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/skins/ when cloning.

Christian 🇫🇷 FR (talk) 18:29, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Microsoft Store offered Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, so that's what got installed (on WSL1). Following Setup works until there's an error with mysql-server. Doing sudo apt install mysql-server produces in /var/log/mysql/error.log:

[ERROR] [MY-012585] [InnoDB] Linux Native AIO interface is not supported on this platform. Please check your OS documentation and install appropriate binary of InnoDB.

@Brion VIBBER:

Apparently it's not possible with WSL 1. The May 2020 Update upgrades to WSL 2.

mysql Ver 8.0.20-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 for Linux on x86_64 ((Ubuntu))

Doing at the mysql> prompt:

update user set authentication_string=password('my-password-here'), plugin='mysql_native_password' where user='root';

Gives an error:

ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '('my-password-here'), plugin='mysql_native_password' where user='root at line 1

So instead I did:

ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'my-password-here';

Which seems to work ok with:

Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)