Compose Setup doesn't work at all #130

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1. Julian-Dumitrascu commented on Dec 13, 2025

   

   Julian-Dumitrascu

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   And the team seems to not give a damn.
   Why should I?
   Maybe I've tried enough already.

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2. anghenfil commented on Dec 13, 2025

   

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   At this point, I'm not sure if this can be called an open source project. This is their recommended deployment way, and it still fails since months. If your open source project doesn't work self-hosted, it's not an open source project :(

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3. cbliard commented on Dec 15, 2025

   

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   Hi @Julian-Dumitrascu and @anghenfil,

   I tried following the instructions from the "Quick start" section of the README.

   I copied the .env.example file to .env and just changed the PGDATA and OPDATA paths like this:

   PGDATA="/Users/cbliard/tmp/openproject/var/lib/postgresql/data"
   OPDATA="/Users/cbliard/tmp/openproject/var/openproject/assets"
   

   And I was able to start it.
   Here is the log of me starting it:

   ~/tmp $ git clone https://github.com/opf/openproject-docker-compose.git --depth=1 --branch=stable/16 openproject
   Cloning into 'openproject'...
   remote: Enumerating objects: 19, done.
   remote: Counting objects: 100% (19/19), done.
   remote: Compressing objects: 100% (15/15), done.
   remote: Total 19 (delta 1), reused 9 (delta 1), pack-reused 0 (from 0)
   Receiving objects: 100% (19/19), 8.35 KiB | 8.35 MiB/s, done.
   Resolving deltas: 100% (1/1), done.
   
   ~/tmp $ cd openproject
   
   ~/tmp/openproject $ cp .env.example .env
   
   ~/tmp/openproject $ vim .env
   
   ~/tmp/openproject $ mkdir -p var/openproject/assets
   
   ~/tmp/openproject $ vim .env
   
   ~/tmp/openproject $ pwd
   /Users/cbliard/tmp/openproject
   
   ~/tmp/openproject $ vim .env
   
   ~/tmp/openproject $ OPENPROJECT_HTTPS=false docker compose up -d --build --pull always
   unable to get image 'willfarrell/autoheal:1.2.0': Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///Users/cbliard/.docker/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?
   
   ~/tmp/openproject $ OPENPROJECT_HTTPS=false docker compose up -d --build --pull always
   [+] Running 50/50
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   #1 [internal] load local bake definitions
   #1 reading from stdin 580B done
   #1 DONE 0.0s
   
   #2 [internal] load build definition from Dockerfile
   #2 transferring dockerfile: 281B done
   #2 DONE 0.0s
   
   #3 [internal] load metadata for docker.io/library/caddy:2
   #3 DONE 0.0s
   
   #4 [internal] load .dockerignore
   #4 transferring context: 2B done
   #4 DONE 0.0s
   
   #5 [internal] load build context
   #5 transferring context: 866B done
   #5 DONE 0.0s
   
   #6 [1/3] FROM docker.io/library/caddy:2
   #6 DONE 0.0s
   
   #7 [2/3] COPY ./Caddyfile.template /etc/caddy/Caddyfile.template
   #7 DONE 0.3s
   
   #8 [3/3] RUN sed 's|${APP_HOST}|'"web"'|g' /etc/caddy/Caddyfile.template > /etc/caddy/Caddyfile
   #8 DONE 0.1s
   
   #9 exporting to image
   #9 exporting layers 0.0s done
   #9 writing image sha256:afbbc6d24791304f27f3bedfb29d38dc0a1ec78ab9b526ea02d17c0e298b4c3a done
   #9 naming to docker.io/openproject/proxy done
   #9 DONE 0.0s
   
   #10 resolving provenance for metadata file
   #10 DONE 0.0s
   [+] Running 11/12
    ✔ openproject/proxy                 Built                                                      0.0s
    ✔ Network openproject_backend       Created                                                    0.0s
    ✔ Network openproject_frontend      Created                                                    0.0s
    ✔ Network openproject_default       Created                                                    0.0s
    ✔ Container openproject-autoheal-1  Started                                                    0.3s
    ✔ Container openproject-cache-1     Started                                                    0.3s
    ✔ Container openproject-db-1        Started                                                    0.3s
    ✔ Container openproject-seeder-1    Started                                                    0.3s
    ✔ Container openproject-worker-1    Started                                                    0.5s
    ✔ Container openproject-web-1       Started                                                    0.5s
    ✔ Container openproject-cron-1      Started                                                    0.5s
    ⠸ Container openproject-proxy-1     Starting                                                   0.7s
   Error response from daemon: failed to set up container networking: driver failed programming external connectivity on endpoint openproject-proxy-1 (6499619694d92c72d0f0ea4631defd7eae323d53a493f44d36b67d401c7739a0): Bind for 0.0.0.0:8080 failed: port is already allocated
   
   ~/tmp/openproject $ OPENPROJECT_HTTPS=false docker compose up -d --build --pull always
   [+] Running 7/7
    ✔ seeder Pulled                                                                                1.2s
    ✔ db Pulled                                                                                    1.2s
    ✔ web Pulled                                                                                   1.2s
    ✔ cache Pulled                                                                                 1.2s
    ✔ worker Pulled                                                                                1.2s
    ✔ cron Pulled                                                                                  1.2s
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   #1 [internal] load local bake definitions
   #1 reading from stdin 580B done
   #1 DONE 0.0s
   
   #2 [internal] load build definition from Dockerfile
   #2 transferring dockerfile: 281B done
   #2 DONE 0.0s
   
   #3 [internal] load metadata for docker.io/library/caddy:2
   #3 DONE 0.0s
   
   #4 [internal] load .dockerignore
   #4 transferring context: 2B done
   #4 DONE 0.0s
   
   #5 [1/3] FROM docker.io/library/caddy:2
   #5 DONE 0.0s
   
   #6 [internal] load build context
   #6 transferring context: 40B done
   #6 DONE 0.0s
   
   #7 [2/3] COPY ./Caddyfile.template /etc/caddy/Caddyfile.template
   #7 CACHED
   
   #8 [3/3] RUN sed 's|${APP_HOST}|'"web"'|g' /etc/caddy/Caddyfile.template > /etc/caddy/Caddyfile
   #8 CACHED
   
   #9 exporting to image
   #9 exporting layers done
   #9 writing image sha256:afbbc6d24791304f27f3bedfb29d38dc0a1ec78ab9b526ea02d17c0e298b4c3a done
   #9 naming to docker.io/openproject/proxy done
   #9 DONE 0.0s
   
   #10 resolving provenance for metadata file
   #10 DONE 0.0s
   [+] Running 9/9
    ✔ openproject/proxy                 Built                                                      0.0s
    ✔ Container openproject-cache-1     Running                                                    0.0s
    ✔ Container openproject-db-1        Running                                                    0.0s
    ✔ Container openproject-autoheal-1  Running                                                    0.0s
    ✔ Container openproject-cron-1      Running                                                    0.0s
    ✔ Container openproject-worker-1    Running                                                    0.0s
    ✔ Container openproject-web-1       Running                                                    0.0s
    ✔ Container openproject-seeder-1    Started                                                    0.1s
    ✔ Container openproject-proxy-1     Started                                                    0.1s
   

   You can see it failed twice for me:

   • a first time because docker was not started. Starting it fixed it.
   • a second time because port 8080 was already in use. Stopping the service I had running on port 8080 fixed it.

   Your issue seems different.

   Could you be more specific and please share the instructions you used and the .env content?
   Also could you please share the environment on which you're running (OS, dsitribution, version, anything useful, etc.)
4. MarkinBrisbane commented on Jan 15, 2026

   

   MarkinBrisbane

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   With the release of 17-rc, I decided to have a fresh look at OpenProject. I had two installation scenarios:

   1. My laptop which had docker desktop
   2. A lab machine

   Neither the docker run or docker compose options worked as per the documentation, I ended up with about a 30 minute conversation with claude.ai to get them working. Much of the challenge was around hostname and how strict the hostname setting is for the server and the client accessing it.

   This is the results:
   docker desktop - docker run importantly using http://localhost:8080 and waiting 2-5 minutes for the database stuff to be setup
   docker run -d -p 8080:80 --name openproject -e OPENPROJECT_SECRET_KEY_BASE=secret -e OPENPROJECT_HOST__NAME=localhost -e OPENPROJECT_HTTPS=false -e OPENPROJECT_DEFAULT__LANGUAGE=en -v openproject_data:/var/openproject/assets openproject/openproject:17-rc

   docker compose on a lab host with internal ip of 192.168.1.240 using http://192.168.1.240:18080 and waiting 2-5 minutes for the database stuff to be setup

   version: "3.7"
   
   networks:
     frontend:
     backend:
   
   volumes:
     pgdata:
     opdata:
   
   x-op-restart-policy: &restart_policy
     restart: unless-stopped
   
   x-op-image: &image
     image: openproject/openproject:17-rc
   
   x-op-app: &app
     <<: [*image, *restart_policy]
     environment:
       # Disable HTTPS
       OPENPROJECT_HTTPS: "false"
       OPENPROJECT_HSTS: "false"
       
       # Server name configuration
       SERVER_NAME: "192.168.1.240"
       
       # Database configuration
       OPENPROJECT_HOST__NAME: 192.168.1.240
       DATABASE_URL: "postgres://postgres:p4ssw0rd@db:5432/openproject"
       
       # Rails configuration
       RAILS_CACHE_STORE: "memcache"
       OPENPROJECT_CACHE__MEMCACHE__SERVER: "cache:11211"
       OPENPROJECT_RAILS__RELATIVE__URL__ROOT: ""
       
       # Email configuration (optional - configure if you need email)
       # OPENPROJECT_EMAIL__DELIVERY__METHOD: "smtp"
       # OPENPROJECT_SMTP__ADDRESS: "smtp.example.com"
       # OPENPROJECT_SMTP__PORT: "587"
       # OPENPROJECT_SMTP__AUTHENTICATION: "plain"
       # OPENPROJECT_SMTP__DOMAIN: "example.com"
       # OPENPROJECT_SMTP__USER__NAME: "user@example.com"
       # OPENPROJECT_SMTP__PASSWORD: "password"
       # OPENPROJECT_SMTP__ENABLE__STARTTLS__AUTO: "true"
     volumes:
       - opdata:/var/openproject/assets
     depends_on:
       - db
       - cache
   
   services:
     db:
       image: postgres:13
       <<: *restart_policy
       stop_grace_period: "3s"
       volumes:
         - pgdata:/var/lib/postgresql/data
       environment:
         POSTGRES_PASSWORD: p4ssw0rd
         POSTGRES_DB: openproject
       networks:
         - backend
   
     cache:
       image: memcached
       <<: *restart_policy
       networks:
         - backend
   
     proxy:
       <<: [*image, *restart_policy]
       command: "./docker/prod/proxy"
       ports:
         - "18080:80"
       environment:
         APP_HOST: web
         OPENPROJECT_HTTPS: "false"
         OPENPROJECT_HSTS: "false"
         SERVER_NAME: 192.168.1.243
       depends_on:
         - web
       networks:
         - frontend
   
     web:
       <<: *app
       command: "./docker/prod/web"
       networks:
         - frontend
         - backend
       depends_on:
         - db
         - cache
         - seeder
   
     worker:
       <<: *app
       command: "./docker/prod/worker"
       networks:
         - backend
       depends_on:
         - db
         - cache
         - seeder
   
     cron:
       <<: *app
       command: "./docker/prod/cron"
       networks:
         - backend
       depends_on:
         - db
         - cache
         - seeder
   
     seeder:
       <<: *app
       command: "./docker/prod/seeder"
       restart: on-failure
       networks:
         - backend
   
5. cbliard commented on Jan 15, 2026

   

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   Thank you for taking the time to test it again. I feel sorry that the process was not smoother.

   docker desktop - docker run importantly using http://localhost:8080 and waiting 2-5 minutes for the database stuff to be setup
   docker run -d -p 8080:80 --name openproject -e OPENPROJECT_SECRET_KEY_BASE=secret -e OPENPROJECT_HOST__NAME=localhost -e OPENPROJECT_HTTPS=false -e OPENPROJECT_DEFAULT__LANGUAGE=en -v openproject_data:/var/openproject/assets openproject/openproject:17-rc

   I tried the command you provided and it seemed to work well.

   One discrepancy I saw is that it's on localhost:8080, but the configured hostname is localhost. So when the app needs to generate links, it generates them with https://localhost/... which are dead links because it should be localhost:8080.

   Here is a screenshot where I hover a link from the "getting started" text. The destination is visible in the bottom left corner.

   

   I then also tried the command we document in our all-in-one container:

   docker run -p 8080:80 \
     -e SECRET_KEY_BASE=secret \
     -e OPENPROJECT_HOST__NAME=localhost:8080 \
     -e OPENPROJECT_HTTPS=false \
     -e OPENPROJECT_DEFAULT__LANGUAGE=en \
     openproject/openproject:17

   I only removed the -it part from the provided command. Also I used openproject/openproject:17 and not openproject/openproject:17-rc.

   It worked well too.

   I know the app can be picky about the hostname value but I'm not sure to get what are the problems you encountered. Can you elaborate about the issues you had with it?

   I left the docker compose part for later. I'll try it once this all-in-one container is done.