Laravel Sail - No docker-compose.yml file found, using WSL 2

Question

After successfully making WSL2 work with Docker Desktop (v3.1.0)

 NAME                   STATE           VERSION
* Ubuntu-20.04           Running         2
  docker-desktop         Running         2
  docker-desktop-data    Running         2

I followed steps from the Laravel Docs: https://laravel.com/docs/8.x#getting-started-on-windows but the error:

[ErrorException]
  file_get_contents(): Read of 8192 bytes failed with errno=13 Permission denied

showed up, and i couldn't find the docker-compose.yml file in the directory either, after running ./vendor/bin/sail up :

ERROR:
        Can't find a suitable configuration file in this directory or any
        parent. Are you in the right directory?

        Supported filenames: docker-compose.yml, docker-compose.yaml

Answer 1

This is probably a Linux permission problem. The safest way to fix it is to chown the directory and make it owned by the same user / group as the php process is running under.

The default user is called sail: https://github.com/laravel/sail/blob/1.x/runtimes/8.0/Dockerfile#L46

And the group is read from a.env variable called WWWGROUP

So what you want to do is open your WSL2 console, cd to your project. And run

chown -R sail:<whatever your group from the env is WWWGROUP> .

. means current directory.

Many beginners would do things like chmod 777 , however this is a bad practise .