
Docker Compose .env File Not Loading: Common Fixes
You set environment variables in a .env file next to your docker-compose.yml

You set environment variables in a .env file next to your docker-compose.yml

You start Docker Desktop, but the engine stops almost immediately, often with a message about WSL...

You're running docker build from a network drive (NAS, SMB, NFS, or mapped drive...

You attempt to run a MySQL container with a bind mount volume and get an error like mkdir: ...

If you see Permission denied when running pip install --user somepackage

You run pip install somepackage on Windows and get a PermissionError