changes are not reflected in container

[delfidream]

I'm working with existing magento projects. When I first configure them everything works fine, but after a while syncronization of files does not work perfectly. Two things occur to me. 1) I update a file (let's say a phtml) and change is not even reflected on container. 2) I change a phtml and I can see the change in the container but no matter what I do, either cleaning cache, removing static generated files I cannot see the change on the browser. Am I missing something? Is there an extra step one must do after changing a file to see the changes? Is there any known issue about this or something I could be doing wrong? This are standard magento projects v 2.4.6
What's the best way to force an update if it's failing? I have not changed anything on compose yml files

[dosubot]

Hey @delfidream! 👋 I'm here to help you with any bugs, questions, or contributions you might have. Let's squash those bugs together!

I found some similar discussions that might be relevant to your issue:

1. How to synchronize changes applied to the Magento2 code from Windows11? - This discussion is still open and might provide insights into synchronization issues.

2. When to use copytocontainer and copyfromcontainer? - This is another open discussion that could be helpful in understanding when to use specific commands for synchronizing files.

Additionally, there was a closed issue where the suggested solution was to push the vendor changes back to the container using the bin/copytocontainer command, for example, bin/copytocontainer vendor/magento ^[1].

For your specific case, ensure that your Docker volumes are correctly set up for synchronization. The Docker configuration for Magento uses volumes with the :cached option to optimize performance and file synchronization ^[2]. If changes are not reflected, you might want to try using the bin/copytocontainer command to manually push changes to the container. Additionally, clearing cache and static files in Magento might help, although specific steps for this weren't found in the repository.

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[markshust]

Hi Delfi,

Where are you making the changes (relative to the src directory), and have you made any changes to the compose.dev.yaml file?

Any update made within app/code and app/design will be automatically bi-directionally synced. You shouldn't need to do anything — changes should just show up.

You can see https://github.com/markshust/docker-magento/blob/release/next/compose/compose.dev.yaml#L1-L19 for all of the files/directories which are synced. You want to keep this list to an absolutely minimum for performance reasons, but if you are using a non-standard location, feel free to add the directory to that config and then restart the containers, and then the directory should be synced.

I'm going to close this ticket out, as I assume you are mounting a directory or file within a non-standard location, but if you are still having troubles let me know.

[delfidream]

Hi Mark, I'm making changes to app/code and app/design files in a standard project and my compose.dev.yaml is exactly as the one you've shared. So, as you explain, I should be able to change a .phtml or a .less file and automatically see the change? Without cleaning folders or doing cache:clean, is that so? I'll try a new project from scratch se if I have luck making it work properly. I've setup mostly existing projects.

[markshust]

@delfidream .phtml yes, but you'll generally need to clear the full page cache on every change (or disable it). LESS files need to be compiled down to CSS, so those changes will not immediately show.

I've done this install literally hundreds of times and on new machines, and it works every time without issues, so long as nothing else is running on the same ports at the time of start. That gives me an idea (— to check all of the ports are open before running bin/start, which may fix resolve many of these reports). The existing project setup has an alternate setup procedure, see https://github.com/markshust/docker-magento?tab=readme-ov-file#existing-projects for more info.

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Cheers,
-M

[delfidream]

Thank you for taking the time to reply and for all your contribution!!

[delfidream]

Hello Mark, update after a while, I could not resolve my issue. I have 7 magento projects installed with docker desktop following step by step the instructions. On each one I have the same problem. Unless I force copytocontainer each time I edit a file, it wont sync changes with the container. I've been googling a lot trying to figure out what could be wrong and found some comments to change settings under "Choose file sharing implementation for your containers" on docker desktop settings, but still no luck.

[delfidream]

Im using a Apple M1 Pro with Sequoia