# Starting Discourse on a Specific Docker Network

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/starting-discourse-on-a-specific-docker-network/49401>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [August 29, 2016, 6:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/starting-discourse-on-a-specific-docker-network/49401 "2016-08-29T18:32:21Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 29, 2016, 6:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/starting-discourse-on-a-specific-docker-network/49401/1 "2016-08-29T18:32:21Z")

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I can run `docker network connect squadwars web_only` and then `docker network inspect squadwars` and see it connected to my squadwars network.

But if I do:

./launcher start web\_only --docker-args=“–network squadwars” it doesn’t seem to connect itself to that network! (And yes I destroyed the container first).

I don’t see my options being passed to the docker run command.

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