How to solve Laravel with sail "start-container": executable file not found - php

Question

Im trying to deploy my laravel app using docker with laravel sail. Then I created docker-compose.yml file and Dockerfile like below.
docker-compose.yml
# For more information: https://laravel.com/docs/sail
version: '3'
services:
laravel.test:
build:
context: ./vendor/laravel/sail/runtimes/8.1
dockerfile: Dockerfile
args:
WWWGROUP: '${WWWGROUP}'
image: sail-8.1/app
extra_hosts:
- 'host.docker.internal:host-gateway'
ports:
- '${APP_PORT:-80}:80'
- '${HMR_PORT:-8080}:8080'
environment:
WWWUSER: '${WWWUSER}'
LARAVEL_SAIL: 1
XDEBUG_MODE: '${SAIL_XDEBUG_MODE:-off}'
XDEBUG_CONFIG: '${SAIL_XDEBUG_CONFIG:-client_host=host.docker.internal}'
volumes:
- '.:/var/www/html'
networks:
- sail
depends_on:
- mysql
mysql:
image: 'mysql/mysql-server:8.0'
ports:
- '${FORWARD_DB_PORT:-3306}:3306'
environment:
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: '${DB_PASSWORD}'
MYSQL_ROOT_HOST: '${DB_HOST}'
MYSQL_DATABASE: '${DB_DATABASE}'
MYSQL_USER: '${DB_USERNAME}'
MYSQL_PASSWORD: '${DB_PASSWORD}'
MYSQL_ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD: 1
volumes:
- 'sail-mysql:/var/lib/mysql'
- './vendor/laravel/sail/database/mysql/create-testing-database.sh:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/10-create-testing-database.sh'
networks:
- sail
healthcheck:
test: ["CMD", "mysqladmin", "ping", "-p${DB_PASSWORD}"]
retries: 3
timeout: 5s
networks:
sail:
driver: bridge
volumes:
sail-mysql:
driver: local
Dockerfile
FROM php:7.4-fpm
# Arguments defined in docker-compose.yml
ARG user
ARG uid
# Install system dependencies
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
git \
curl \
libpng-dev \
libonig-dev \
libxml2-dev \
zip \
unzip
# Clear cache
RUN apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
# Install PHP extensions
RUN docker-php-ext-install pdo_mysql mbstring exif pcntl bcmath gd
# Get latest Composer
COPY --from=composer:latest /usr/bin/composer /usr/bin/composer
# Create system user to run Composer and Artisan Commands
RUN useradd -G www-data,root -u $uid -d /home/$user $user
RUN mkdir -p /home/$user/.composer && \
chown -R $user:$user /home/$user
# Set working directory
WORKDIR /var/www
USER $user
But, when I try to run docker-compose up, I get this below error. I have been trying this for now 2 days. I installed sail properly.
ERROR: for 7fd8f64d5ed1_proj_laravel.test_1 Cannot start service laravel.test: OCI runtime create failed: container_linux.go:380: starting container process caused: exec: "start-container": executable file not found in $PATH: unknown
ERROR: for laravel.test Cannot start service laravel.test: OCI runtime create failed: container_linux.go:380: starting container process caused: exec: "start-container": executable file not found in $PATH: unknown
ERROR: Encountered errors while bringing up the project.
Here is my .env
DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=db
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=here_goes_db_name
DB_USERNAME=sail
DB_PASSWORD=tyutyu
How can I fix this ??

Answer 1

The default docker container should copy a bash script called start-container from your project root to the container during build. If you for example removed it from your project root, it can not copy it and run it later. So the steps to fix it are:
Restore the start-container script to your project root, you can find it here
Rebuild the image with docker-compose build
And everything should work again. I suspect step 2 is even optional as the entire project gets mounted as a volume.