sail up -d creates new docker container instead of using correct one

[MrLarkyy]

Sail Version

1.29.1

Laravel Version

11.0.0

PHP Version

8.3.6

Operating System

Windows (WSL)

OS Version

23H2

Description

Hey I'm experiencing this issue whenever I run sail up -d I notice it creates a new docker container instead of using the previous already made one. This is occurring on a freshly installed Laravel application.
I followed the Sail documentation for windows

Steps To Reproduce

follow the documentation
Then:

• run the project with sail
• stop the project
• rerun the project with sail
• now there should be an extra docker container made.

[pb30]

What exact commands are you running to reproduce this?

[TwqntysJr]

I'm experiencing the same issue exactly like described

The new instance of the docker containers are created when I run
./vendor/bin/sail up -d

[pb30]

How are you stopping the project? Is this on a fresh project with unmodified docker-compose?

[MrLarkyy]

Hey! It is a fresh project. Ive tried to make multiple of the projects, it always happens. Only thing that I use is the sail up -d command

[MrLarkyy]

It always creates a new container with random UUID.

Here you can see that it even shows the UUID in the console.

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[Jubeki]

Does WSL show a different folder name each time you start WSL?
Because the container name is determined from the current folder you are in.

Maybe there is a way to set the container name via an .env entry. Probably needs a PR to sail.

[MrLarkyy]

The thing is that it did work at the first time. I've called my project testapp and even in wsl was testapp shown as well as in my docker. Another thing is that sometimes it works and sometimes it just creates a completely new container with random name as you can see on the screenshots. It is really strange.

[Jubeki]

So the problem itself does not lie with Sail but with Docker / WSL:
https://docs.docker.com/compose/project-name/

You can attempt a PR where the project-name is defined in .env and added to the docker compose command. If no .env variable is defined the project folder should be used.

Why WSL sometimes mounts another random folder name instead of the correct name is not clear to me. Maybe try a bug report in WSL: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL