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Can’t start WordPress service? What driver failed?

It is the first time that I tried to install WordPress in a container, I have used the following from the official docker documentation, but I received the following errors:

version: "3.9"

services:
  db:
    image: mysql:5.7
    volumes:
      - db_data:/var/lib/mysql
    restart: always
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: somewordpress
      MYSQL_DATABASE: wordpress
      MYSQL_USER: wordpress
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: wordpress
    
  wordpress:
    depends_on:
      - db
    image: wordpress:latest
    volumes:
      - wordpress_data:/var/www/html
    ports:
      - "8000:80"
    restart: always
    environment:
      WORDPRESS_DB_HOST: db:3306
      WORDPRESS_DB_USER: wordpress
      WORDPRESS_DB_PASSWORD: wordpress
      WORDPRESS_DB_NAME: wordpress
volumes:
  db_data: {}
  wordpress_data: {}

Error:

Creating my_wordpress_db_1 ... done
Creating my_wordpress_wordpress_1 ...
Creating my_wordpress_wordpress_1 ... error

ERROR: for my_wordpress_wordpress_1  Cannot start service wordpress: driver failed programming external connec                                                                                            tivity on endpoint my_wordpress_wordpress_1 (eaa2b38842baac2cbc2126426076f542fd8806509d5d5b19160e07a38f89f173)                                                                                            : Bind for 0.0.0.0:8000 failed: port is already allocated

ERROR: for wordpress  Cannot start service wordpress: driver failed programming external connectivity on endpo                                                                                            int my_wordpress_wordpress_1 (eaa2b38842baac2cbc2126426076f542fd8806509d5d5b19160e07a38f89f173): Bind for 0.0.                                                                                            0.0:8000 failed: port is already allocated
ERROR: Encountered errors while bringing up the project.
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  1. 0

    The error message you have pasted contains a lot of blank spaces which makes the output hard to read. But if you dig through the reason, Docker states the following why your WordPress image will not work.

    ERROR: for wordpress Cannot start service wordpress: 
driver failed programming external connectivity on 
endpoint my_wordpress_wordpress_1 (eaa2b38842baac2cbc2126426076f542fd8806509d5d5b19160e07a38f89f173): 
Bind for 0.0.0.0:8000 failed: port is already allocated

    The solution is to figure out which other resource is allocating port 8000 and close that program. It might be some other docker instance running, try docker ps -a to view all docker images. Alternatively you may specify a different port in your docker-compose.yml-file.

    You can try

    ports:
  - "8080:80"

    In your example you have 8000:80

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  2. 0

    You made a change to compiled information after running:
    npm run build:dev

    In my case I had manually modified /etc/hosts after compiling the build.
    This broke referenced paths in the build.

    Re-running npm run build:dev fixes the issue.

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