Docker Installation - Warning: instbyte.config.json is invalid JSON, using defaults.

[varadins]

Greetings - thank you for creating this.

Installing via docker-compose and the only entry in the log, no matter how many times I restart the container... states: I am not able to connect to the container.

Warning: instbyte.config.json is invalid JSON, using defaults.

docker-compose.yml

services:
  instbyte:
    image: mohitgauniyal/instbyte:latest
    ports:
      - "8082:3000"
    volumes:
      - ./instbyte-data:/data
      - ./instbyte.config.json:/app/instbyte.config.json
    environment:
      - INSTBYTE_DATA=/data
      - INSTBYTE_UPLOADS=/data/uploads
    restart: unless-stopped

Looking at the file structure it looks like it created instbyte.config.json as a directory.

docker@docker ~/d/instbyte> lsd -all
drwxrwxr-x docker docker 4.0 KB Wed Mar 18 17:28:02 2026  .
drwxrwxr-x docker docker 4.0 KB Wed Mar 18 17:11:08 2026  ..
.rw-rw-r-- docker docker 306 B  Wed Mar 18 17:25:32 2026  docker-compose.yml
drwxr-xr-x root   root   4.0 KB Wed Mar 18 17:12:07 2026  instbyte-data
drwxr-xr-x root   root   4.0 KB Wed Mar 18 17:12:06 2026  instbyte.config.json

[nazgu1]

There is pull request for that #3 after merging it should work.

If you are eager to test you can do as follows (or just wait for merge):

Clone my fork:
git clone https://github.com/nazgu1/instbyte.git

Modify docker compose:

  instbyte:
    #image: mohitgauniyal/instbyte:latest
    build: /path/to/cloned/repo
    ports:
      - "8082:3000"
    volumes:
      - ./instbyte-data:/data
      - ./instbyte.config.json:/app/instbyte.config.json
    environment:
      - INSTBYTE_DATA=/data
      - INSTBYTE_UPLOADS=/data/uploads
    restart: unless-stopped