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jemoeee
jemoeee

Reputation: 147

Docker-compose can't find suitable file, even though it exists

So I am running ubuntu 18.04 lts on windows 10 through hyper-v and I'm trying to run the docker compose command through the terminal. When inside the docker folder and I run ls, it says there is a docker-compose.yml file. Still when I run docker compose command, it says no suitable configuration file is found.

docker-compose up -d
ERROR: 
    Can't find a suitable configuration file in this directory or any
    parent. Are you in the right directory?

    Supported filenames: docker-compose.yml, docker-compose.yaml

I'm using docker version 18.09.0 and docker compose version 1.22.0

Upvotes: 8

Views: 9911

Answers (4)

Aamir Muhammad
Aamir Muhammad

Reputation: 1

It will be a bit stupid answer I believe but as I am new to using docker desktop on windows. I was trying to run a script file using Ubuntu distro 20.04 LTS. the path I was providing was not correct. because windows user will use path like this in my case C:\Users\usera\Desktop\Terminology-service\ols but here when I changed it to /mnt/c/Users/usera/Desktop/Terminology-service/ols it worked.

Upvotes: 0

frmbelz
frmbelz

Reputation: 2543

Was getting the same error on Ubuntu 20.04. I could not use apt to install docker-compose (Forbidden errors on apt's sources.list and out of my control) so had to install docker-compose with snap

sudo snap install docker

That is a "caveat" of docker installed with snap. From docker-snap README: "All files that docker needs access to should live within your $HOME folder". So that is expected behavior.

Move your project to $HOME folder. For example, I had my project in /usr/local/src/my_project and had to move to ~/some_folder/my_project and then could run docker-compose.

Upvotes: 3

Vaseem007
Vaseem007

Reputation: 2531

On Ubuntu Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS I was facing the same issue. I don't know the exact reason but Docker and Docker Compose installed with snap was not working.

sudo snap remove docker && sudo snap remove docker-compose

Installed docker from Officials Docs here and compose from here via apt and and now my Docker Compose file start working

Upvotes: 11

jemoeee
jemoeee

Reputation: 147

Found out the problem was using shared folder functionality with Hyper V and windows 10. For some reason docker won't work when the docker-compose.yml file is located inside that, however when I move it outside of the shared(e.g. home directory) folder it does work. So if I want to use the docker file I have to place it outside the shared folder to make it work. Rest of the project runs as expected, so a little workaround ......

Upvotes: 2

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