Docker compose isnt writing files or directories to host - docker

Question

I am following the digital ocean tutorial to install wordpress via docker
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-with-docker-compose
It says if the certbot is other than 0 I get the following error, there are no log files where I it says to look. Newish to docker thanks for helping all!
Edit: I’m noting none of the volumes that this docker-compose were created on the host
Name Command State Ports
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certbot certbot certonly --webroot ... Exit 1
db docker-entrypoint.sh --def ... Up 3306/tcp, 33060/tcp
webserver nginx -g daemon off; Up 0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp
wordpress docker-entrypoint.sh php-fpm Up 9000/tcp
Docker-compose.yml here
version: '3'
services:
db:
image: mysql:8.0
container_name: db
restart: unless-stopped
env_file: .env
environment:
- MYSQL_DATABASE=wordpress
volumes:
- dbdata:/var/lib/mysql
command: '--default-authentication-plugin=mysql_native_password'
networks:
- app-network
wordpress:
depends_on:
- db
image: wordpress:5.1.1-fpm-alpine
container_name: wordpress
restart: unless-stopped
env_file: .env
environment:
- WORDPRESS_DB_HOST=db:3306
- WORDPRESS_DB_USER=$MYSQL_USER
- WORDPRESS_DB_PASSWORD=$MYSQL_PASSWORD
- WORDPRESS_DB_NAME=wordpress
volumes:
- wordpress:/var/www/html
networks:
- app-network
webserver:
depends_on:
- wordpress
image: nginx:1.15.12-alpine
container_name: webserver
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- "80:80"
volumes:
- wordpress:/var/www/html
- ./nginx-conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d
- certbot-etc:/etc/letsencrypt
networks:
- app-network
certbot:
depends_on:
- webserver
image: certbot/certbot
container_name: certbot
volumes:
- certbot-etc:/etc/letsencrypt
- wordpress:/var/www/html
command: certonly --webroot --webroot-path=/var/www/html --email sammy#example.com --agree-tos --no-eff-email --staging -d example.com -d www.example.com
volumes:
certbot-etc:
wordpress:
dbdata:
networks:
app-network:
driver: bridge

Answer 1

The volumes being created here are named volumes.
To check named volumes run:
docker-compose volume ls
Also, per the comment above, you could check certbot logs with:
docker-compose logs certbot
The volumes and container logs won’t show up using docker unless you use the specific container and volume names which you can find with:
docker-compose ls and docker-compose volume ls
Or use the docker-compose variants above