VirtualBox shared folders

Intalling sudo

Become root

su -

Install sudo package

apt update
apt install sudo

Add the user to sudo group

usermod -aG sudo <username>

su <username>

Check if it works

su whoami

Install dependencies for VirtualBox guest additions

sudo apt update
sudo apt install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`

Mount the Guest Additions CD

sudo mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom

Run the installation script for the guest additions

sudo /media/cdrom/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

Shut down VM

sudo shutdown now

Add a new shared folder in the settings of VirtualBox. Turn VM on.

Create directory

mkdir ~/shared

Mount the shared folder

sudo mount -t vboxsf shared ~/shared

The host folder should now be accessible inside the VM

cd ~/shared

Add line to /etc/fstab (separated by tabs)

shared    /home/<username>/shared   vboxsf  defaults    0   0

Add line to /etc/modules

vboxsf

Install curl

sudo apt update
sudo apt install curl

Add NodeSource package signing key

curl -sSL https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -

To add nodejs repositories, create file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list with the following two lines:

deb https://deb.nodesource.com/node_15.x buster main
deb-src https://deb.nodesource.com/node_15.x buster main

Install NodeJS

sudo apt update
sudo apt install nodejs

Check the installed version

node -v
npm -v

Install desirable npm packages, for example

sudo npm install --global surge

Remove apache's old html directory

sudo rm -rf /var/www/html

Add a symbolic link in its place

sudo ln -s ~/shared /var/www/html

Add clean URL rewrites

Edit /etc/apache2/apache2.conf file in <Directory /var/www/> configuration set

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Multiviews

Restart Apache

sudo systemctl restart apache2