# Discourse\_docker: issues with bootstrapping

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-docker-issues-with-bootstrapping/370909>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [June 19, 2025, 3:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-docker-issues-with-bootstrapping/370909 "2025-06-19T15:13:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![sgw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@sgw](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sgw)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 3:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-docker-issues-with-bootstrapping/370909/4 "2025-06-19T15:34:04Z")

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it fails [at this line](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker/blob/072c5260e72198b54afc33185b4a9d1a25dfe216/templates/web.template.yml#L193)

Doesn’t that maybe relate to the fact that the user `discourse` doesn’t exist on the docker host … ? … maybe … ? Or is that inside the discourse-container?

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