# Launcher rebuild app fails with "containers/app.yml does not exist"

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** two-container\
**Created:** [June 19, 2024, 6:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/launcher-rebuild-app-fails-with-containers-app-yml-does-not-exist/312787 "2024-06-19T18:11:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 19, 2024, 6:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/launcher-rebuild-app-fails-with-containers-app-yml-does-not-exist/312787/1 "2024-06-19T18:11:54Z")

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The upload page told me:

> Updates via the web UI are disabled until you run the latest image. To do so log in to your server using SSH and run:
> 
> ```
> cd /var/discourse
> git pull
> ./launcher rebuild app
> 
> ```

The first time it ran for a while and then ended with the error. If I try again I get:

```plaintext
./launcher rebuild app
x86_64 arch detected.
ERROR: containers/app.yml does not exist or is not readable.

Available configs ( data, mail-receiver, web_only )

```

The file does not exist:

```plaintext
ls -al containers
total 28
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 15 18:12 .
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Jun 19 17:34 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 11 2023 .gitkeep
-rw------- 1 root root 1175 Jun 27 2023 data.yml
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 27 2023 delete
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2306 Jan 15 18:12 mail-receiver.yml
-rw------- 1 root root 6304 Jan 2 20:39 web_only.yml

```

Running in a Digital Ocean droplet.

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