I posted a tutorial yesterday on how to get Android Studio running on ChromeOS via Project Crostini Containers but I realize that not everyone is a Android Developer. Today’s tutorial will appeal to PHP Developers who would like to do some local development and testing on their Pixelbook via Project Crostini. Of course this is not designed to allow you to host production websites but it will work for those who wish to build and test PHP based web applications.
By now, I am going to assume you know how to setup a Crostini VM and Container, if not, please follow the steps outlined in this knowledgebase entry. The steps below will start assuming that you are already in your virtual machine at the username@stretch prompt.
Run the following commands at the terminal.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo apt install apache2 apache2-utils sudo systemctl enable apache2 sudo apache2 -v sudo apt install mariadb-server mariadb-client sudo systemctl enable mariadb sudo mysql_secure_installation sudo apt install php7.0 nano libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0-mysql php-common php7.0-cli php7.0-common php7.0-json php7.0-opcache php7.0-readlin sudo a2enmod php7.0 sudo systemctl restart apache2
Once the install is complete, your webroot will be in /var/www/html/
You will now need to get the IP Address of your virtual machine by running the command “ip addr”.
kmyers@stretch:~$ ip addr 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 4: eth0@if5: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether 00:16:3e:8f:a0:f0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff link-netnsid 0 inet 100.115.92.219/28 brd 100.115.92.223 scope global eth0 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 fe80::216:3eff:fe8f:a0f0/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
In my case, my IP Address is 100.115.92.219. This IP Address can be entered into the Chrome Browser on your Pixelbook and if everything went well, you should be greeted with the Apache Welcome Screen.
Happy Developing!
I’m getting the following when trying to restart Apache.
joey@localhost:~$ sudo systemctl restart apache2
Running in chroot, ignoring request: restart
Never mind. All is good.
Glad to hear, sorry I did not see your previous comment
your link to knowledgebase entry is broken https://kmyers.me/knowledge-base/creating-a-project-crostini-virtual-machine/
I found that instead of accessing the webroot through the IP address, you could use penguin.linux.test in the Chrome Browser on your Chromebook.
Yes, that is correct, keep in mind that this specific article was written before the “penguin.linux.test” was added in ChromeOS 68.0.3440-4
And still very helpful, I should add 🙂
Thanks!
When i type in my ip adress, it loads very slowly, and i get a time out every time