Hi, I'm having trouble running Typesense in a Dock...
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Christian Rieger
10/28/2022, 3:04 PMHi, I'm having trouble running Typesense in a Docker container (Docker Desktop running on Windows 10). It is telling me that the data directory does not exist (even though it does), when attempting to run from a bash terminal. Any suggestions?
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Jason Bosco
10/28/2022, 3:19 PMYou’d need to mount the data directory from your host machine into the Docker container
Jason Bosco
10/28/2022, 3:19 PMCould you share the Docker run command you’re using?
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Christian Rieger
10/28/2022, 3:46 PMsure thing -- I've tried this way:
Christian Rieger
10/28/2022, 3:47 PM Copy code
$ docker run -p 8108:8108 -v $(pwd)/typesense-data:/data typesense/typesense:0.23.1 --data-dir=/data --api-key=$TYPESENSE_API_KEY --enable-cors
I20221028 14:53:03.157213 1 typesense_server_utils.cpp:352] Starting Typesense 0.23.1
I20221028 14:53:03.157263 1 typesense_server_utils.cpp:355] Typesense is using jemalloc.
E20221028 14:53:03.157555 1 typesense_server_utils.cpp:373] Typesense failed to start. Data directory C:/Program Files/Git/data does not exist.Christian Rieger
10/28/2022, 3:47 PMand this way:
Christian Rieger
10/28/2022, 3:47 PM Copy code
$ docker run -p 8108:8108 -v $(pwd)/typesense-data:/data typesense/typesense:0.23.1 --data-dir=$TYPESENSE_DATA_DIR --api-key=$TYPESENSE_API_KEY --enable-cors
I20221028 14:53:03.157213 1 typesense_server_utils.cpp:352] Starting Typesense 0.23.1
I20221028 14:53:03.157263 1 typesense_server_utils.cpp:355] Typesense is using jemalloc.
E20221028 14:53:03.157555 1 typesense_server_utils.cpp:373] Typesense failed to start. Data directory C:/source/typesense-data does not exist.Christian Rieger
10/28/2022, 3:48 PMthe data mount does not seem to be recognized correctly
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Jason Bosco
10/28/2022, 4:12 PMLooks like in windows the direction of the slash might cause issues. Could you try one of the solutions here and let me know which one works for you: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35315996/how-do-i-mount-a-docker-volume-while-using-a-windows-host
I’d love to update our docs based on that
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Christian Rieger
11/09/2022, 8:42 PMI was unable to get this working in Bash but was successful in Windows Powershell:`docker run -p 8108:8108 -v $PWD/typesense-data:/data typesense/typesense:0.23.1 --data-dir=/data --api-key=$TYPESENSE_API_KEY --enable-cors`
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Jason Bosco
11/09/2022, 8:43 PMOh interesting, I would have expected that to be opposite!
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Christian Rieger
11/09/2022, 8:43 PMSame! Bash did not like the data volume mount for whatever reason