Error deploying N8N to Digital ocean

[meena]

Hello,
I am having an issue while trying to install n8n on digital ocean droplet, The issue occur while trying to start n8n with caddy “sudo docker compose up -d”

Below is the error message:
Error response from daemon: failed to create shim task: OCI runtime create failed: runc create failed: unable to start container process: error during container init: error mounting “//n8n-docker-caddy/caddy_config/Caddyfile” to rootfs at “/etc/caddy/Caddyfile”: mount //n8n-docker-caddy/caddy_config/Caddyfile:/etc/caddy/Caddyfile (via /proc/self/fd/6), flags: 0x5000: not a directory: unknown: Are you trying to mount a directory onto a file (or vice-versa)? Check if the specified host path exists and is the expected type

Can someone please help with this?

Thanks in advance!

[EmeraldHerald]

Hi @meena Welcome to the community

While I’m not someone who uses DigitalOcean, taking a look at this part of your error message:

Are you trying to mount a directory onto a file (or vice-versa)? Check if the specified host path exists and is the expected type

Can you confirm whether /root/n8n-docker-caddy/caddy_config/Caddyfile exists in your droplet? Running cat /root/n8n-docker-caddy/caddy_config/Caddyfile would let you see the file content if it exists.

[meena]

Hi @EmeraldHerald,

Thanks for your kind support.

Yes, It does exist and I’ve edited it with my subdomain link.

[Jon]

Hey @meena,

Can you check the data_path in your .env it looks like the value you have there is invalid.