WSL2 Apache2 vhost not working

[UdVi86]

Hello!

I installed apache2 in WSL2,
modified root directory in apache2.conf:

<Directory /home/udvi/Projects/>
...
</Directory>

I create a test.conf in /etc/apache2/sites-available folder. It contains:

ServerName test.tld
DocumentRoot /home/udvi/Projects/test

Add test.tld to /system32/drivers/etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 test.tld

But not loading site test.tld

I modified DocumentRoot to /home/udvi/Projects/html in 000-default.conf and localhost sometimes loads well and sometimes doesn't, but test.tld never loads.

The error is: ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

[ad-on-is]

Same here with nginx, running in a docker-container.
Running ping test.add.dnmc (which is my TLD for local development) gives me

add@ADISDELL $ ping test.add.dnmc
PING test.add.dnmc (192.168.1.100) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from ADISDELL (192.168.1.100): icmp_seq=1 ttl=127 time=0.282 ms
64 bytes from ADISDELL (192.168.1.100): icmp_seq=2 ttl=127 time=0.314 ms
64 bytes from ADISDELL (192.168.1.100): icmp_seq=3 ttl=127 time=0.315 ms
64 bytes from ADISDELL (192.168.1.100): icmp_seq=4 ttl=127 time=0.291 ms
64 bytes from ADISDELL (192.168.1.100): icmp_seq=5 ttl=127 time=0.274 ms

[Drakota]

I have the same issue, sometimes it loads forever and the second time it loads instantly.
I've managed to make a vhost work by adding this in the hosts file.

127.0.0.1 test.tld
::1 test.tld

But it is extremely unstable and can't be used like this at the moment.
Sometimes a request load infinitely so I have to spam the same request until one goes through.

Here's an example of the issue

[Drakota]

Seems to be related to #4340

[UdVi86]

127.0.0.1 test.tld
::1 test.tld

Thanks, it works! :)

[craigloewen-msft]

The ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED message indicates to me that this has to do with what IP address the apache server is bound to. We have a bug fix coming in to make this work, and are tracking it over in issue #4353 . I'll close this issue out as a duplicate to that one since I believe they have the same root cause. Thanks for filing!

[douglascorrea]

127.0.0.1 test.tld
::1 test.tld

This didn't work for me, any other workaround?

[douglascorrea]

I realized that, if I put:

::1             test.tld localhost

instead of

::1             localhost test.tld

in the Windows hosts file, it works, I don't know if this is a normal behaviour for IPv6

[btassone]

The comment above worked for me

[ledunguit]

I have the same issue, sometimes it loads forever and the second time it loads instantly.
I've managed to make a vhost work by adding this in the hosts file.

127.0.0.1 test.tld
::1 test.tld

But it is extremely unstable and can't be used like this at the moment.
Sometimes a request load infinitely so I have to spam the same request until one goes through.

Here's an example of the issue

It's work for me, thanks lot, you saved my time ♥

[nicktchernikov]

I can confirm that I was able to access what I needed after adding the following to the hosts file:
127.0.0.1 <my_domain> ::1 <my_domain>
Using WSL2, Ubuntu 18.04, Apache 2, and Chrome

[abetoots]

Also worked for me but still encountered errors related to DNS. I tried flushing dns in windows host using ipconfig /flushdns and now it works