Docker Portainer installation

Hosting farmOS
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Hi,

might be a basic question, but Im not that familiar with hosting. I tried installing farmos with portainer on my server in my home network, using the yml example with some minor modifications regarding the volumes. Get the containers running, but when I try to access the website from my pc, I get an 403 error. The logs of the farmos-www-1 container show the following error:

[Wed Aug 19 21:30:45.685040 2026] [autoindex:error] [pid 19:tid 19] [client 192.168.170.62:33796] AH01276: Cannot serve directory /var/www/html/: No matching DirectoryIndex (index.php,index.html) found, and server-generated directory index forbidden by Options directive

192.168.170.62 - - [19/Aug/2026:21:30:45 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 403 535 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:136.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/136.0"

Some time ago I had farmos up and running, maybe someone can help me.

Thanks in advance

Bennet

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Hi @Bmoeller - welcome to the forum! :waving_hand:

Can you share your Docker configuration? Maybe the volume modifications are causing it.

Does it work if you do not use any volumes? As a simple test…

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services:
  db:
    image: postgres:17
    volumes:
      - /media/fstab/hdd1/docker/volume1/farmos/db/db:/var/lib/postgresql/data
    ports:
      - '5432:5432'
    environment:
      POSTGRES_USER: farm
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: farm
      POSTGRES_DB: farm

  www:
    depends_on:
      - db
    image: farmos/farmos:4.0.4
    volumes:
      - /media/fstab/hdd1/docker/volume1/farmos/www:/opt/drupal
      - /media/fstab/hdd1/docker/volume1/farmos/sites:/opt/drupal/web/sites
      - /media/fstab/hdd1/docker/volume1/farmos/keys:/opt/drupal/keys
    ports:
      - '85:80'
    restart: always

without the volumes it works fine, thats great. Can you show me how to use the folders I want to use?

path ist /media/fstab/hdd1/docker/volume1/farmos

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Ah, my guess is that the first volume is the issue…

Try removing this line:

- /media/fstab/hdd1/docker/volume1/farmos/www:/opt/drupal

The only directories you need to mount are /opt/drupal/web/sites and /opt/drupal/keys.

Unless you are building your own custom codebase with additional modules… in which case see Building farmOS with Com

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Thank a lot, that seems to work for now. Im just trying it out, dont know what additional modules I will need.

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