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Running Typesense in Docker Container on Windows 10

TLDR Christian had issues running Typesense in Docker due to an unrecognized data directory. Jason suggested a solution to fix the file path issue, which Christian successfully implemented using Windows Powershell.

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Oct 28, 2022 (14 months ago)

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Christian

03:04 PM

Hi, 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

03:19 PM

You’d need to mount the data directory from your host machine into the Docker container

03:19

Jason

03:19 PM

Could you share the Docker run command you’re using?

Christian

03:46 PM

sure thing -- I've tried this way:

03:47

Christian

03:47 PM

$ 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.

03:47

Christian

03:47 PM

and this way:

03:47

Christian

03:47 PM

$ 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.

03:48

Christian

03:48 PM

the data mount does not seem to be recognized correctly

Jason

04:12 PM

Looks 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

Nov 09, 2022 (13 months ago)

Christian

08:42 PM

I 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

Jason

08:43 PM

Oh interesting, I would have expected that to be opposite!

Christian

08:43 PM

Same! Bash did not like the data volume mount for whatever reason

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