Ubuntu cannot find docker-compose.yml

Docker Engine Compose
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Hi Folks,

When trying to create a docker container on Ubuntu 22 I am unable to run docker compose up -d, it continually fails with:

no configuration file provided: not found

The docker-compose.yml file does exist and I am in the same folder when I run the docker compose command.

Any ideas??

Thx

Mike

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Hi Mike,

Have you solved this issue because I have the same problem and I have tried to do everything with no success, please?

Sanyi

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Hard to help when all you share is that you have an error message and basically say that itā€™s wrong. It is probably not, but I guess this is the reason why the original question didnā€™t get any response.

The filename is probably wrong. For example it could be lowercase ymI instead of yml. The first ends with uppercase i and the latter with a lowercase L. You could do th following:

  1. Try to use cat to get the content of the file, but when you refer to the filename, donā€™t use TAB to complete the name in the terminal.
    cat docker-compose.yml
  2. If that works, then you can specify the compose file as a compose argument:
    docker compose -f docker-compose.yml up -d
  3. You ca also check the length of the filename like this:
    find * | awk '{print length "\t" $0}'
    and you should get an output like this but different depending on what files you have in the folder:
    18	docker-compose.yml
6	run.sh
    If you donā€™t see 18 before the compose fileā€™s name there is an extracharacter in it or something is missing.
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Dear Ɓkos,
Yes, you are right but I am totally new on this area. Well, I was succeded to overcome tis error. First it was a problem I wrote ā€˜docker composeā€™ instead of ā€˜docker-composeā€™ and then I gave the docker-compose.yml file location with -f option.
Now it is working.
Thank you for answering me.
Bests,
Sanyi