Everything seemed fine the last time I checked, although I havn’t checked in some time. Install was done following the official docs, on a DO server. Rebooted server but same issue. Tried to run ./launcher restart but get the following error: Config file was not found, ensure containers/.yml exi…

Just noticed the file name of the .yml file should usually be app.yml? I checked the containers folder and the file is named app.yml. Why is it trying to look for .yml?

The command is ./launcher rebuild app not ./launcher rebuild

@pfaffman it might be good to add an informative message in this case rather than looking for a blank .yml file.

Well, I’m generally afraid of messing with launcher as it’s the only way to break every install on the planet. :wink: If you give launcher a file that doesn’t exist it suggests the ones that do. I’m surprised that it doesn’t do that with no argument. My fears aside, I’ve got one fix to discourse-d…

Done in https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker/commit/f80e6a37a9d748f43047141b18986f6386444bc9

Getting "config file was not found, ensure containers/.yml exists"

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) January 17, 2019, 1:23am 6

That’s true, do you think we can make a “filename exists” check here @tgxworld without breaking stuff?

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