docker --volume format for Windows

Question

I'm trying to take a shell script we use at work to set up our development environments and re-purpose it to work on my Windows environment via Git Bash.

The way the containers are brought up in the shell script are as follows:

docker run \
--detach \
--name=server_container \
--publish 80:80 \
--volume=$PWD/var/www:/var/www \
--volume=$PWD/var/log/apache2:/var/log/apache2 \
--link=mysql_container:mysql_container \
--link=redis_container:redis_container \
web-server

When I run that as-is, it returns the following error message:

C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\Resources\bin\docker.exe: Error response from daemon: invalid bind mount spec "/C/Users/username/var/docker/environments/development/scripts/var/log/apache2;C:\\Program Files\\Git\\var\\log\\apache2": invalid volume specification: '/C/Users/username/var/docker/environments/development/scripts/var/log/apache2;C:\Program Files\Git\var\log\apache2': invalid mount config for type "bind": invalid mount path: '\Program Files\Git\var\log\apache2' mount path must be absolute. See 'C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\Resources\bin\docker.exe run --help'.

I did a bunch of googling and documentation reading, but I'm a little overwhelmed by Docker, and I think I got it wrong. I tried setting up the container as follows:

docker run \
--detach \
--name=server_container \
--publish 80:80 \
--volume=/c/users/username/var/www:/var/www \
--volume=/c/users/username/var/log/apache2:/var/log/apache2 \
--link=mysql_container:mysql_container \
--link=redis_container:redis_container \
web-server

It still errors out with a similar error message. If I remove the colon:/var/www it comes up, but it doesn't seem to map those directories properly, that is it doesn't know that C:\users\username\var\www = /var/www

I know I'm missing something painfully dumb here, but when I look at the documentation I just glaze over. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

If you want to make the path relative, you can use pwd and variables. For example:

CURRENT_DIR=$(pwd)    
docker run -v /"$CURRENT_DIR"/../../test/:/test alpine ls test