OpenCRVS
v1.5
v1.5
  • 👋Welcome!
  • CRVS Systems
    • Understanding CRVS
    • Effective digital CRVS systems
    • OpenCRVS within a government systems architecture
    • OpenCRVS Value Proposition
  • Product Specifications
    • Functional Architecture
    • Workflow management
    • Status Flow Diagram
    • Users
      • Examples
    • Core functions
      • 1. Notify event
      • 2. Declare event
      • 3. Validate event
      • 4. Register event
      • 5. Print certificate
      • 6. Issue certificate
      • 7. Search for a record
      • 8. View record
      • 9. Correct record
      • 10. Verify record
      • 11. Archive record
      • 12. Vital statistics export
    • Support functions
      • 13. Login
      • 14. Audit
      • 15. Deduplication
      • 16. Performance management
      • 17. Payment
      • 18. Learning
      • 19. User support
      • 20. User onboarding
    • Admin functions
      • 21. User management
      • 22. Comms management
      • 23. Content management
      • 24. Config management
    • Data functions
      • 25. Legacy data import
      • 26. Legacy paper import
  • Technology
    • Architecture
      • Performance tests
    • Standards
      • FHIR Documents
        • Event Composition
        • Person
        • Registration Task
        • Event Observations
        • Locations
    • Security
    • Interoperability
      • Create a client
      • Authenticate a client
      • Event Notification clients
      • Record Search clients
      • Webhook clients
      • National ID client
      • FHIR Location REST API
      • Other ways to interoperate
  • Default configuration
    • Intro to Farajaland
    • Civil registration in Farajaland
    • OpenCRVS configuration in Farajaland
      • Application settings
      • User / role mapping
      • Declaration forms
      • Certificate templates
    • Business process flows in Farajaland
  • Setup
    • 1. Planning an OpenCRVS Implementation
    • 2. Establish project and team
    • 3. Gather requirements
      • 3.1 Mapping business processes
      • 3.2 Mapping offices and user types
      • 3.3 Define your application settings
      • 3.4 Designing event declaration forms
      • 3.5 Designing a certificate template
    • 4. Installation
      • 4.1 Set-up a local development environment
        • 4.1.1 Install the required dependencies
        • 4.1.2 Install OpenCRVS locally
        • 4.1.3 Starting and stopping OpenCRVS
        • 4.1.4 Log in to OpenCRVS locally
        • 4.1.5 Tooling
          • 4.1.5.1 WSL Support
      • 4.2 Set-up your own, local, country configuration
        • 4.2.1 Fork your own country configuration repository
        • 4.2.2 Set up administrative address divisions
          • 4.2.2.1 Prepare source file for administrative structure
          • 4.2.2.2 Prepare source file for statistics
        • 4.2.3 Set up CR offices and Health facilities
          • 4.2.3.1 Prepare source file for CRVS Office facilities
          • 4.2.3.2 Prepare source file for health facilities
        • 4.2.4 Set up employees & roles for testing or production
          • 4.2.3.1 Prepare source file for employees
          • 4.2.3.2 Configure role titles
        • 4.2.5 Set up application settings
          • 4.2.5.1 Managing language content
            • 4.2.5.1.1 Informant and staff notifications
          • 4.2.5.2 Configuring Metabase Dashboards
        • 4.2.6 Configure certificate templates
        • 4.2.7 Configure declaration forms
          • 4.2.7.1 Configuring an event form
        • 4.2.8 Seeding & clearing your local databases
        • 4.2.9 Countryconfig API endpoints explained
      • 4.3 Set-up a server-hosted environment
        • 4.3.1 Verify servers & create a "provision" user
        • 4.3.2 TLS / SSL & DNS
          • 4.3.2.1 LetsEncrypt https challenge in development environments
          • 4.3.2.2 LetsEncrypt DNS challenge in production
          • 4.3.2.3 Static TLS certificates
        • 4.3.3 Configure inventory files
        • 4.3.4 Create a Github environment
          • 4.3.4.1 Environment secrets and variables explained
          • 4.3.4.2 VPN Recipes
        • 4.3.5 Provisioning servers
          • 4.3.5.1 SSH access
          • 4.3.5.2 Building, pushing & releasing your countryconfig code
          • 4.3.5.3 Ansible tasks when provisioning
        • 4.3.6 Deploy
          • 4.3.6.1 Running a deployment
          • 4.3.6.2 Seeding a server environment
          • 4.3.6.3 Login to an OpenCRVS server
          • 4.3.6.5 Resetting a server environment
        • 4.3.7 Backup & Restore
          • 4.3.7.1 Restoring a backup
          • 4.3.7.2 Off-boarding from OpenCRVS
    • 5. Functional configuration
      • 5.1 Configure application settings
      • 5.2 Configure registration periods and fees
      • 5.3 Managing system users
    • 6. Quality assurance testing
    • 7. Go-live
      • 7.1 Pre-Deployment Checklist
    • 8. Operational Support
    • 9. Monitoring
      • 9.1 Application logs
      • 9.2 Infrastructure health
      • 9.3 Routine monitoring checklist
      • 9.4 Setting up alerts
      • 9.5 Managing a Docker Swarm
  • General
    • Community
    • Contributing
    • Releases
      • v1.5.1: Release notes
      • v1.5.0: Release notes
      • v1.4.1: Release notes
      • v1.4.0 to v1.4.1 Migration notes
      • v1.4.0 Release notes
      • v1.3.* to v1.4.* Migration notes
      • v1.3.5: Release notes
      • v1.3.4: Release notes
      • v1.3.3: Release notes
      • v1.3.1: Release notes
      • v1.3.0: Release notes
      • v1.2.1: Release notes
      • Patch: Elasticsearch 7.10.2
      • v1.2.0: Release notes
      • v.1.1.2: Release notes
      • v.1.1.1: Release notes
      • v1.1.0: Release notes
    • Roadmap
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4.1.5.1 WSL Support

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Last updated 11 months ago

Windows Subsystem for Linux allows the development of OpenCRVS in Windows without having to run VirtualBox or other virtual machines. This page describes some common problems and solutions for them.

Install

For installation of WSL 2 in Windows, Make sure you're using Visual Studio Code to develop and install the for it. Do not install Docker within the WSL Linux distribution. Docker For Desktop will automatically do that for you.Do not install Docker within WSL. Install Docker for Desktop and it will do the integration for you.

Post-install

Run Powershell, and make sure that you're running the correct WSL version, and Ubuntu is set as the default distribution in WSL.PS C:\Users\dev> wsl --list -vNAME STATE VERSION* Ubuntu Running 2docker-desktop-data Running 2docker-desktop Running 2Make sure that Docker Desktop is using WSL 2 based engine in it's settings

Usual problems

Only one or few OpenCRVS microservices aren't running

Typically this is because Windows is reserving a specific port but the WSL Linux world doesn't pick that up. For example, if gateway fails to run, you can find in Windows Powershell what process is running in the portPS C:\Users\dev> netstat -ano | findstr :7070TCP 127.0.0.1:7070 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 20352​PS C:\Users\dev> tasklist /FI "PID eq 20352"​Image Name PID Session Name Session# Mem Usage========================= ======== ================ =========== ============wslrelay.exe 20352 Console 1 8 512 K

WSL hangs or running out of memory

Running all the databases and Node.js services OpenCRVS uses can demand quite a bit of memory. For WSL, we're suggesting at least 16GB of memory but the amount can vary between computers and WSL installations. It's also recommended you allow WSL use more memory by editing .wslconfig You can do this by pressing Win+R and enternotepad.exe %UserProfile%/.wslconfigInsert this content into the file and save. Don't go above the amount of memory visible in task manager (CTRL + Shift + ESC)[wsl2]memory=16GB

refer to Microsoft's documentation.
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