# Docker-compose fails to start

**URL:** <https://talk.openelis-global.org/t/docker-compose-fails-to-start/258>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [January 27, 2024, 6:04pm UTC](https://talk.openelis-global.org/t/docker-compose-fails-to-start/258 "2024-01-27T18:04:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![ELAI](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac8455/32.png) [@ELAI](https://talk.openelis-global.org/u/ELAI)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2024, 6:04pm UTC](https://talk.openelis-global.org/t/docker-compose-fails-to-start/258/1 "2024-01-27T18:04:31Z")

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elai@elia:~/openelis-docker$ docker-compose up -d  
Recreating openelisglobal-front-end … done  
Recreating oe-certs … done  
Recreating openelisglobal-database …  
Recreating autoheal-oe … done  
Recreating openelisglobal-proxy …  
Recreating openelisglobal-proxy … error

ERROR: for openelisglobal-proxy Cannot start service proxy: driver failed programming external connectivity on endpoint openelisglobal-proxy (5a0872f00450a86e1d1b0b2f96d2fef635d57fb7a8150921a85445c20219264d): Bind for 0.0.0.0:8081 failed: port is already allocated

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**Author:** ![aditya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@aditya](https://talk.openelis-global.org/u/aditya)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2024, 10:08pm UTC](https://talk.openelis-global.org/t/docker-compose-fails-to-start/258/2 "2024-01-27T22:08:47Z")

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Hey @ELAI

seems like you port is already allocated by other program or running process !

Stop other program/process which using 443 port or  
just restart you PC and run the docker file again .

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**Author:** ![ELAI](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac8455/32.png) [@ELAI](https://talk.openelis-global.org/u/ELAI)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2024, 8:42am UTC](https://talk.openelis-global.org/t/docker-compose-fails-to-start/258/3 "2024-01-28T08:42:41Z")

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Actually i have gone in the docker-compose.yml and changed the port from 8081 to8082 and the error seems to to have goneopenelis-docker$ docker-compose up -d  
oe-certs is up-to-date  
openelisglobal-database is up-to-date  
openelisglobal-front-end is up-to-date  
autoheal-oe is up-to-date  
Starting openelisglobal-proxy …  
openelisglobal-webapp is up-to-date  
Starting openelisglobal-proxy … done  
elai@elia:~/openelis-docker$

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**Author:** ![aditya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@aditya](https://talk.openelis-global.org/u/aditya)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2024, 8:48am UTC](https://talk.openelis-global.org/t/docker-compose-fails-to-start/258/4 "2024-01-28T08:48:24Z")

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try command `docker ps` and send screenshot !