# Certonly error in docker **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [May 6, 2022, 12:45pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/certonly-error-in-docker/177274 "2022-05-06T12:45:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mghr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@mghr](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/mghr)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 12:45pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/certonly-error-in-docker/177274/1 "2022-05-06T12:45:19Z")
My domain is: [one.mghr.org](http://one.mghr.org) I ran this command: certonly --webroot --webroot-path /var/www/certbot/ -d [test.mghr.org](http://test.mghr.org) -m [email@gmail.com](mailto:email@gmail.com) --agree-tos --non-interactive It produced this output: ![Screenshot 2022-05-06 at 1.44.11 pm](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/original/3X/d/9/d99096d27f2d4d98c33065754fbcd7b734a61e0f.png) My web server is (include version): Nginx running in docker The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): NA My hosting provider, if applicable, is: I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don't know): yes I'm using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel): The version of my client is (e.g. output of `certbot --version` or `certbot-auto --version` if you're using Certbot): certbot latest ---
**Author:** ![9peppe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/9peppe/32/31596_2.png) [@9peppe](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/9peppe)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 12:58pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/certonly-error-in-docker/177274/2 "2022-05-06T12:58:40Z")
Zoom out. Show us the `docker-compose.yml` or the `docker run` command. ---
**Author:** ![mghr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@mghr](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/mghr)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 9:13pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/certonly-error-in-docker/177274/3 "2022-05-06T21:13:13Z")
nginx: image: nginx:latest container\_name: nginx-container restart: always ports: - 80:80 - 443:443 volumes: - nginx:/etc/nginx/conf.d/ - certbot-e:/etc/letsencrypt/ - certbot-w:/var/www/certbot once the container is running, I executed the following using bash inside the container. > $ apt update && apt install certbot -y > $ certbot certonly --webroot --webroot-path /var/www/certbot/ -d [test.mghr.org](http://test.mghr.org) -m [email@gmail.com](mailto:email@gmail.com) --agree-tos --non-interactive ---
**Author:** ![webprofusion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/webprofusion/32/85310_2.png) [@webprofusion](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/webprofusion)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2022, 5:11am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/certonly-error-in-docker/177274/4 "2022-05-07T05:11:17Z")
What OS are you hosting docker in? Windows doesn't support symlinks and it's looks like this operation that's failing. It sounds similar to [OSError: [Errno 95] Not supported · Issue #4850 · certbot/certbot · GitHub](https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues/4850) ---
**Author:** ![9peppe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/9peppe/32/31596_2.png) [@9peppe](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/9peppe)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2022, 6:05am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/certonly-error-in-docker/177274/5 "2022-05-07T06:05:40Z")
This is just a mess. There's no good way to make a webserver and an acme client cooperate, in docker. There are just several hacky ways. Find one you like, or ask for alternatives. ---
**Author:** ![mghr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@mghr](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/mghr)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2022, 9:50am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/certonly-error-in-docker/177274/6 "2022-05-07T09:50:26Z")
I am hosting on Azure Containers, there are other couple of containers so its a multi-container instance. ---
**Author:** ![mghr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@mghr](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/mghr)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2022, 9:57am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/certonly-error-in-docker/177274/7 "2022-05-07T09:57:45Z")
Thank You, The link was really helpful ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/original/3X/c/a/ca6c06ea1ea201324bba7048c6841ce60236468d.png) [@system](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2022, 9:58am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/certonly-error-in-docker/177274/8 "2022-06-06T09:58:22Z")
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