I resolved the issue by :
- Removing Node in Windows
- Changing permissions to the app-folder recursively in WSL:
$ chmod -R 777 . - Restarting Docker
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I've installed laravel 12 in WSL with no errors. When I try to build the Docker containers from Sail I get the error below about a port conflict 3306 used by MySql.
I've seen few posts below, and tried to change that port in .env and docker-compose.yml but nothing worked. In Docker Desktop for Win 10 , I used to get the same error then I restart the project and Sail worked. But in Win 11 that option is greyed-out and even restarting Docker doesn't help. Thanks
With Docker Desktop running:
$ sudo ./vendor/bin/sail up -d
[+] Running 1/2
✔ Container lwalk-laravel.test-1 Recreated 0.4s
⠹ Container lwalk-mysql-1 Starting 0.4s
Error response from daemon: Ports are not available: exposing port TCP 0.0.0.0:3306 -> 127.0.0.1:0: listen tcp 0.0.0.0:3306: bind: An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions.
.env | laravel default
APP_NAME=Laravel
APP_ENV=local
APP_KEY=base64:B2yX0vWwjvwSgR0qZHCwl/fO+oHR6JRAYyvSuy2mgr4=
APP_DEBUG=true
APP_URL=http://localhost
APP_LOCALE=en
APP_FALLBACK_LOCALE=en
APP_FAKER_LOCALE=en_US
APP_MAINTENANCE_DRIVER=file
# APP_MAINTENANCE_STORE=database
PHP_CLI_SERVER_WORKERS=4
BCRYPT_ROUNDS=12
LOG_CHANNEL=stack
LOG_STACK=single
LOG_DEPRECATIONS_CHANNEL=null
LOG_LEVEL=debug
DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=mysql
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=laravel
DB_USERNAME=sail
DB_PASSWORD=password
SESSION_DRIVER=database
SESSION_LIFETIME=120
SESSION_ENCRYPT=false
SESSION_PATH=/
SESSION_DOMAIN=null
BROADCAST_CONNECTION=log
FILESYSTEM_DISK=local
QUEUE_CONNECTION=database
CACHE_STORE=database
# CACHE_PREFIX=
MEMCACHED_HOST=127.0.0.1
REDIS_CLIENT=phpredis
REDIS_HOST=127.0.0.1
REDIS_PASSWORD=null
REDIS_PORT=6379
MAIL_MAILER=log
MAIL_SCHEME=null
MAIL_HOST=127.0.0.1
MAIL_PORT=2525
MAIL_USERNAME=null
MAIL_PASSWORD=null
MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS="[email protected]"
MAIL_FROM_NAME="${APP_NAME}"
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=
AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-east-1
AWS_BUCKET=
AWS_USE_PATH_STYLE_ENDPOINT=false
VITE_APP_NAME="${APP_NAME}"
docker-compose.yml | laravel default
services:
laravel.test:
build:
context: './vendor/laravel/sail/runtimes/8.4'
dockerfile: Dockerfile
args:
WWWGROUP: '${WWWGROUP}'
image: 'sail-8.4/app'
extra_hosts:
- 'host.docker.internal:host-gateway'
ports:
- '${APP_PORT:-80}:80'
- '${VITE_PORT:-5173}:${VITE_PORT:-5173}'
environment:
WWWUSER: '${WWWUSER}'
LARAVEL_SAIL: 1
XDEBUG_MODE: '${SAIL_XDEBUG_MODE:-off}'
XDEBUG_CONFIG: '${SAIL_XDEBUG_CONFIG:-client_host=host.docker.internal}'
IGNITION_LOCAL_SITES_PATH: '${PWD}'
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: '%'
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
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67053449/unable-to-set-the-app-port-on-env-for-laravel-sail
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