I've needed to do the same thing.
Here's how to boot the Ubuntu Linux subsystem with all of cron's services upon the Windows boot & provide a means to 'reboot' the Linux subsystem.
I'm successfully hosting the openssh-server, nginx & mariadb database on our server.
Install Linux Subsystem
Remove sudo password prompt (required)
Enable SSH password login (optional)
Windows autologin on start (required if you have a password or RDP in)
Run bash/cron loop on start
Add apps/services to startup on cron
- Open bash
sudo crontab -e
- Select nano (or any editor you know how to save in)
Append startup apps such as openssh-server, nginx, mysql, php:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
@reboot . $HOME/.profile; /usr/sbin/sshd -D
#@reboot . $HOME/.profile; service php7.1-fpm start # Uncomment for php7.1 fpm
#@reboot . $HOME/.profile; service mysql start # Uncomment for mysql/mariadb
#@reboot . $HOME/.profile; service nginx start # Uncomment for nginx
Save and exit: ctrlx, then press y and enter.
Reboot the Linux subsystem without rebooting Windows
Extra - Install PHP 7.1 (not quite as straight forward)
Run the commands below for a pretty standard setup:
mkdir /run/php && chmod -R 777 /run/php
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php && sudo apt update
PHPV=7.1 && sudo apt install --allow-unauthenticated -y php${PHPV}-fpm php${PHPV}-gd php${PHPV}-json php${PHPV}-mysqlnd php${PHPV}-curl php${PHPV}-intl php${PHPV}-mcrypt php${PHPV}-imagick php${PHPV}-zip php${PHPV}-xml php${PHPV}-mbstring
Run the command below for an 'OwnCloud' setup:
PHPV=7.1 && apt install --allow-unauthenticated -y php${PHPV}-redis redis-server php${PHPV}-ldap php${PHPV}-smbclient
Extra - Install nginx webserver
Run the commands below for a base setup with PHP7.1:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/stable
sudo apt update && sudo apt -y install nginx
sudo sed -i 's:access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;:access_log off;:g' /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
sudo sed -i '/index index.html/c\\tindex index.html index.php index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;' /etc/nginx/sites-available/default
STR='}\n\n\tlocation ~ \.php$ {\n\t\tinclude snippets\/fastcgi-php.conf;\n\t\tfastcgi_pass unix:\/var\/run\/php\/php7.1-fpm.sock;\n\t}'
sudo sed -i "0,/}/s//$STR\n/" /etc/nginx/sites-available/default
sudo service nginx restart
Extra - Install mariadb's mysql database
Run the commands below for a mysql database server:
RELEASE=`lsb_release -a | tail -1 | cut -f2`
sudo apt install software-properties-common
sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 0xF1656F24C74CD1D8
sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=i386,amd64,ppc64el] https://mirrors.evowise.com/mariadb/repo/10.3/ubuntu $RELEASE main"
sudo apt update && sudo apt --allow-unauthenticated -y install mariadb-server
When prompted, set a root database user password.