Can't run Seafile using the official docker-compose.yml file

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Hi all,

I am trying to install Seafile CE 11 on TrueNAS using the official docker-compose file provided in the instructions here in this page 11.0/docker/deploy_seafile_with_docker/ but I am having trouble.

Checking the seafile container logs it seems to not be able to connect to the database with connection refused. Checking the database container, a similar message (meaning at least the containers can talk to each other).

This is the file I started with:

services:
  db:
    container_name: seafile-mysql
    environment:
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=REDACTED
      - MYSQL_LOG_CONSOLE=true
      - MARIADB_AUTO_UPGRADE=1
    image: mariadb:10.11
    volumes:
      - /mnt/Pool/seafile/db:/var/lib/mysql
  memcached:
    container_name: seafile-memcached
    entrypoint: memcached -m 256
    image: memcached:1.6.18
  seafile:
    container_name: seafile
    depends_on:
      - db
      - memcached
    environment:
      - DB_HOST=db
      - DB_ROOT_PASSWD=REDACTED
      - SEAFILE_ADMIN_EMAIL=REDACTED
      - SEAFILE_ADMIN_PASSWORD=REDACTED
      - SEAFILE_SERVER_LETSENCRYPT=false
      - SEAFILE_SERVER_HOSTNAME=docs.REDACTED
    image: seafileltd/seafile-mc:11.0-latest
    ports:
      - '10763:80'
    volumes:
      - /mnt/Pool/seafile/data:/shared

I made some modifications and asked ChatGPT and this is my current version:

name: seafile
networks:
  seafile-net:
    attachable: False
    driver: bridge
    external: False
services:
  db:
    environment:
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD="REDACTED" # in quotes now
      - MYSQL_LOG_CONSOLE=true
    image: mariadb:10.11
    networks:
      - seafile-net
    volumes:
      - /mnt/Pool/seafile/db:/var/lib/mysql
  memcached:
    entrypoint:
      - memcached
      - '-m'
      - '256'
    image: memcached:latest
    networks:
      - seafile-net
  seafile:
    depends_on:
      - db
      - memcached
    environment:
      - DB_HOST=db
      - DB_ROOT_PASSWD="REDACTED" # in quotes now
      - TIME_ZONE=Etc/UTC
      - SEAFILE_ADMIN_EMAIL=REDACTED
      - SEAFILE_ADMIN_PASSWORD=REDACTED
      - SEAFILE_SERVER_LETSENCRYPT=false
      - SEAFILE_SERVER_HOSTNAME=docs.REDACTED
    image: seafileltd/seafile-mc:latest
    networks:
      - seafile-net
    ports:
      - '10763:80'
    volumes:
      - /mnt/Pool/seafile/data:/shared

Still the exact same error, connection refused:

2025-05-13 11:20:13.606342+00:00Error: Failed to connect to mysql database seahub_db: Access denied for user 'seafile'@'fdd0:0:0:10::4' (using password: YES)

Any tips to help out appreciated.
Also a but off-topic, what’s going on with not allowing create a forum user with a gmail address? :slight_smile:

Thanks!

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Official docker compose is
seafile-server.yml and corresponding .env file.
Your file don’t look like it. Anyway, error says, that something wrong with seafile mysql user. Check, that this user exist, have correct rights on databases and it’s password is correctly passes to seafile.