Setting up Sitecore MVP Site running on Docker Containers

March 27, 2021

Setting up Sitecore MVP Site running on Docker Containers

The Sitecore MVP github page has straightforward instructions but I had a few setup issues and decided to blog those.

When running init.ps1 received the following error -

Error:

C:\MVP-Site-master\init.ps1 : The term 'git' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or

operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try

again.

At line:1 char:1

+ .\init.ps1 -InitEnv -LicenseXmlPath "C:\license\license.xml" -AdminPa ...

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (git:String) [init.ps1], CommandNotFoundException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException,init.ps1

Since this is a new machine, I checked if git was installed by running the git command and received the following error:

git : The term 'git' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the

spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

At line:1 char:1

+ git

+ ~~~

+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (git:String) [], CommandNotFoundException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

You can also check the environment variables if you have a git-related path and it wasn't there in my case:

Downloaded git and installed. Installed the 64-bit version since my Azure VM was 64-bit.

After installation, reopen the environment variables window in case if you left it open prior to the installation.

I could then find the path: c:\program files\git\cmd

If you run the git command in the PS command now in an already open PS window, its common to still get the same error: git is not recognised as the name of a cmdlet

Close and reopen the PS Script Window and try the git command and the command should be recognised:

Now, traverse to the necessary folder, re-execute the init.ps1 command, everything successful this time:

The next step is to docker-compose up and there is a readily available PS script named up.ps1. Execute the same -

Once docker compose up is successful, another error that you might receive is this:

File C:\MVP-Site-master\.config\dotnet-tools.json came from another computer and might be blocked to help protect this computer. For more information, including how to unblock, see https://aka.ms/motw