How to Run DogeBox on Windows WSL

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How to Run DogeBox on Windows WSL

Download:
https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL/releases/download/2405.5.4/nixos-wsl.tar.gz

Open CMD (Command Prompt) and run:
wsl --install --no-distribution

On CMD go to the directory were you did download the file nixos-wsl.tar.gz above, example:
cd C:\Users\YOUR-USERNAME\Downloads

Run:
wsl --import NixOS $env:USERPROFILE\NixOS\ nixos-wsl.tar.gz --version 2
wsl -d NixOS
sudo nix-channel --update

Edit configuration file /etc/nixos/configuration.nix:
nix-shell -p vim
sudo vi /etc/nixos/configuration.nix

change it from:

# Edit this configuration file to define what should be installed on
# your system. Help is available in the configuration.nix(5) man page, on
# https://search.nixos.org/options and in the NixOS manual (`nixos-help`).

# NixOS-WSL specific options are documented on the NixOS-WSL repository:
# https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL

{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:

{
  imports = [
    # include NixOS-WSL modules
    <nixos-wsl/modules>
  ];

  wsl.enable = true;
  wsl.defaultUser = "nixos";
  

  # This value determines the NixOS release from which the default
  # settings for stateful data, like file locations and database versions
  # on your system were taken. It's perfectly fine and recommended to leave
  # this value at the release version of the first install of this system.
  # Before changing this value read the documentation for this option
  # (e.g. man configuration.nix or on https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html).
  system.stateVersion = "24.05"; # Did you read the comment?
}

to:


# Edit this configuration file to define what should be installed on
# your system. Help is available in the configuration.nix(5) man page, on
# https://search.nixos.org/options and in the NixOS manual (`nixos-help`).

# NixOS-WSL specific options are documented on the NixOS-WSL repository:
# https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL

{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:

{
  imports = [
    # include NixOS-WSL modules
    <nixos-wsl/modules>
    ] ++ lib.optionals (builtins.pathExists "/home/nixos/data/nix/dogebox.nix") [
      /home/nixos/data/nix/dogebox.nix
    ];

  wsl.enable = true;
  wsl.defaultUser = "nixos";

  environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.git pkgs.vim ];

security.wrappers.dbx = {
  source = "/home/nixos/dogeboxd/build/dbx";
  owner = "nixos";
  group = "users";
};

security.wrappers.dogeboxd = {
  source = "/home/nixos/dogeboxd/build/dogeboxd";
  capabilities = "cap_net_bind_service=+ep";
  owner = "nixos";
  group = "users";
};

security.wrappers._dbxroot = {
  source = "/home/nixos/dogeboxd/build/_dbxroot";
  owner = "root";
  group = "root";
  setuid = true;
};


  # This value determines the NixOS release from which the default
  # settings for stateful data, like file locations and database versions
  # on your system were taken. It's perfectly fine and recommended to leave
  # this value at the release version of the first install of this system.
  # Before changing this value read the documentation for this option
  # (e.g. man configuration.nix or on https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html).
  system.stateVersion = "24.05"; # Did you read the comment?
}

Run:
sudo nixos-rebuild switch
cd /home/nixos
git clone https://github.com/dogeorg/dogeboxd.git
git clone https://github.com/dogeorg/dpanel.git
git clone https://github.com/dogeorg/dkm.git
cd dogeboxd
nix-shell
make dev

Now let that CMD window open, and open a new one and run:
wsl -d NixOS

Get the WSL local IP Address running the command:
ip addr show

The IP should be visible on ´eth0:´ were it says inet something like 172.27.223.62/20 but you will need only the 172.27.223.62

Now run:
cd /home/nixos/dkm
nix-shell
make dev

Let the two CMD windows open and open your browser and put your DogeBox local IP with the Port 8080, example:
http://172.27.223.62:8080 and follow the browser instructions 🙂