Hello , can anyone help me correct this yaml file please ( error : services must be a mapping)

Docker Engine Compose
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version: '3.0'

services:
  db: 
    image: mysql:5.7
    
    container_name: mysql_database
    
    volumes:
      -db_data: /var/lib/mysql
    
      restart: always
    
      environment:
        MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: word@poress
        MYSQL_DATABASE: wordpress
        MYSQL_USER: wordpress
        MYSQL_PASSWORD: abc@123y      
  
  wordpress:
      depends_on:
      -db
                 
    image: wordpress:latest
      
      container_name:wd_frontend
      
    volumes:
      -wordpress_files: /var/www/html
      port:
      -"8000:80"
      restart: always

volumes:
    wordpress_files:
    db_data:
services:
 - db
 - wordpress
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Ths is the offending part that results in the error message.

A cleaned up version of you compose file could look like this:

version: '2.4'

services:
  db:
    image: mysql:5.7
    container_name: mysql_database
    restart: always
    volumes:
      - db_data: /var/lib/mysql
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: word@poress
      MYSQL_DATABASE: wordpress
      MYSQL_USER: wordpress
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: abc@123y

  wordpress:
    image: wordpress:latest
    container_name: wd_frontend
    restart: always
    volumes:
      - wordpress_files: /var/www/html
    port:
      - "8000:80"
    depends_on:
      - db

volumes:
  wordpress_files: {}
  db_data: {}

I am not a fan of using schema version 3.0 or higher when the deployment is targeting docker-compose. With docker swarm deployments, using 3.8 or 3.9 makes sense.

Though, this is basic yaml skill, which every better editor like visual studio code, notepad++, sublime text3, and many other should validate for you one the fly. The rest is looking up syntax from the official docker compose reference documentation. There is no need to guess here. This is realy the very basic.

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Thank you very much for your help, even removing that part and changing the version and removing spaces as you guessed, the file still getting error services must be a mapping

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I just restructed your yaml, but missed that you used “port” instead of “ports”.

I always find it astonishing that beginners decide what parts of an error message are relevant for others to help. You managed to boil it down to a single sentence that doesn’t make sense to.

Good luck with finding a solution!

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you helped , thank you