Admin backend creation via docker desktop on win10 fails

Help me!
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I’m looking forward to trying forest admin and am in the process of installing the admin backend locally using docker desktop on a win10 machine with a postgresql db running locally in a docker container.

I copied & pasted the cli commands from the guide in my account on your website and everything works fine until I get to step 4 which is the last step. That command is as follows and has 2 parts:
cd “my-project-name” && docker-compose up --build

Changing the directory fails because the folder doesn’t exist.
docker-compose fails because the config file doesn’t exist.

Step 2 works fine:
docker run --rm --init -it -v ~/.forest.d:/usr/src/cli/.forest.d -e TOKEN_PATH=“/usr/src/cli” forestadmin/toolbelt login

Step 3 works fine:
docker run --rm --init -it -v pwd:/usr/src/app -v ~/.forest.d:/usr/src/cli/.forest.d -e TOKEN_PATH=“/usr/src/cli” forestadmin/toolbelt projects:create “my-project-name” --databaseConnectionURL “postgres://user:pwd@host.docker.internal:5432/dbname” --databaseSchema “public” --applicationHost “localhost” --applicationPort “3310”

The above step shows a bunch of files being created and upon completion says “√ Hooray, installation success!”.
But the files are nowhere to be found on my local machine. Where are the files? Where is the “my-project-name” folder and where is the docker-compose config file? How do I get the local admin backend running on a win10 machine with docker desktop & a postegresql db running locally in docker?

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Feature(s) impacted

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backend creation

Observed behavior

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backend creation fails when following the instructions provided

Expected behavior

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successful backend creation

Failure Logs

  1. cd my-project-name: error cannot find path “my-project-name” because it does not exist
  2. docker-compose error: no configuration file provided: not found

Context

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  • Project name: my-project-name
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  • Environment name: win10 with docker desktop
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Hello @sirscalawag,

Thank for this feedback.
It seems the step 3 command creates a volume on “pwd”. Do you have a folder a disk root named pwd?
I think it should work by specifying a real path (/c/project) instead of pwd.

Regards

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Thank you. That worked but I had to use //c/forestadmin in front of the docker volumes.

In step 2 I changed this:
docker run --rm --init -it -v ~/.forest.d:/usr/src/cli/.forest.d -e TOKEN_PATH="/usr/src/cli" forestadmin/toolbelt login

to this:
docker run --rm --init -it -v “//c/forestadmin/.forest.d:/usr/src/cli/.forest.d” -e TOKEN_PATH="/usr/src/cli" forestadmin/toolbelt login

And in step 3 I changed this:
docker run --rm --init -it -v pwd:/usr/src/app -v ~/.forest.d:/usr/src/cli/.forest.d -e TOKEN_PATH="/usr/src/cli" forestadmin/toolbelt projects:create “my-project-name” --databaseConnectionURL “postgres://user:pwd@host.docker.internal:5432/dbname” --databaseSchema “public” --applicationHost “localhost” --applicationPort “3310”

to this:
docker run --rm --init -it -v “//c/forestadmin:/usr/src/app” -v “//c/forestadmin/.forest.d:/usr/src/cli/.forest.d” -e TOKEN_PATH="/usr/src/cli" forestadmin/toolbelt projects:create “my-project-name” --databaseConnectionURL “postgres://user:pwd@host.docker.internal:5432/dbname” --databaseSchema “public” --applicationHost “localhost” --applicationPort “3310”

Then the docker-compose.yml and supporting files were in C:\forestadmin\my-project-name

Note that I couldn’t just use //c because docker didn’t have permissions to create the “my-project-name” subfolder there. But it worked fine after I created the forestadmin subfolder and then had docker put it’s files there.