You can experiment with some other guides and projects. As you probably seen before: https://hub.docker.com/r/nibrev/nodebb One more option is to make your own modified Dockerfile. For example Nobbic works on Alpine Linux based Docker images and most of the NodeBB guides are Ubuntu/Debian based. So first thing is to check the host machine/hosting provider and what is going on when you execute Dockerfile. Including Docker version which was mentioned many times on this forum.