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Georgian ShepherdOP
Hi all,

I have a nextjs app that works fine when run from the command line, but as soon as I add a dockerfile, it fails to find the /app or /pages folder

The structure is
/<MyApp>
/src
/app

And my docker file is as follows

FROM node:20

WORKDIR /app

# Copy package.json and package-lock.json
COPY package*.json ./

# Install dependencies for the project
RUN npm install

# Copy the entire project
COPY . .

# Set the environment variable
ENV NODE_ENV=production

# Build the Next.js application
RUN npm run build

# Expose the application port
EXPOSE 3000

# Start the application
CMD ["npm", "start"]


but I get this error

16.13 > Build error occurred
16.13 Error: > Couldn't find any `pages` or `app` directory. Please create one under the project root
16.13     at findPagesDir (/app/node_modules/next/dist/lib/find-pages-dir.js:42:15)
16.13     at <unknown> (/app/node_modules/next/dist/build/index.js:418:73)
16.13     at async Span.traceAsyncFn (/app/node_modules/next/dist/trace/trace.js:153:20)
16.13     at async build (/app/node_modules/next/dist/build/index.js:361:9)


when it tries to execute npm install.

any suggestions?

3 Replies

Giant Angora
Your in the wrong working dir. You should be at root
@Giant Angora Your in the wrong working dir. You should be at root
Georgian ShepherdOP
that makes sense - will try later today
Georgian ShepherdOP
Sorry forgot to reply, but the problem ended up being the copy, it wasn't copying anything so I had to copy all the stuff I wanted individually