"This does not seem to be a WordPress installation" error

[jkhaui]

I know this issue has been posted before, but I am posting it again as I'm not sure it has been rectified even after the PR merge which ostensibly fixed the problem.

I am running Ubuntu 18.04. Followed the instructions exactly, using docker-compose up -d. Everything else works fine until the final step:

Step 10/10 : EXPOSE 8080
 ---> Using cache
 ---> a654d45233cc
Successfully built a654d45233cc
Successfully tagged headless-wp-starter_wp-headless:latest
Recreating db-headless ... done
Recreating wp-headless ... done
Attaching to wp-headless
wp-headless         | Error: This does not seem to be a WordPress installation.
wp-headless         | Pass --path=`path/to/wordpress` or run `wp core download`.
wp-headless         | Error: '/var/www/html/' is not writable by current user.
wp-headless exited with code 1

Even tried the temporary workaround offered by another user docker-compose up --build --force-recreate wp-headless. Still nothing. Please help, thanks.

[Linguisto]

Same issue for me. Tried some other WP docker images, didn't help. Still waiting for a solution.

[jkhaui]

@Linguisto which WP docker images did you try? In the end, I just ended up using Bitnami's Docker image which has an up-to-date version of WP and works fine for me for local development: https://github.com/bitnami/bitnami-docker-wordpress

Then you can just take the frontend app you want from headless-wp-starter (e.g. I only use the GraphQL frontend) and use that with the Docker image. The only downside is there's slightly more setup involved