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I am getting the below error while running docker-compose up in windows server 2016.

docker compose version is docker-compose version 1.27.4, build 40524192

enter image description here Traceback (most recent call last):

File "site-packages\docker\api\client.py", line 205, in _retrieve_server_version File "site-packages\docker\api\daemon.py", line 181, in version File "site-packages\docker\utils\decorators.py", line 46, in inner File "site-packages\docker\api\client.py", line 228, in _get File "site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 543, in get File "site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 530, in request File "site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 643, in send File "site-packages\requests\adapters.py", line 449, in send File "site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 677, in urlopen File "site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 392, in _make_request File "http\client.py", line 1244, in request File "http\client.py", line 1290, in _send_request File "http\client.py", line 1239, in endheaders File "http\client.py", line 1026, in _send_output File "http\client.py", line 966, in send File "site-packages\docker\transport\npipeconn.py", line 32, in connect File "site-packages\docker\transport\npipesocket.py", line 23, in wrapped File "site-packages\docker\transport\npipesocket.py", line 72, in connect File "site-packages\docker\transport\npipesocket.py", line 59, in connect pywintypes.error: (2, 'CreateFile', 'The system cannot find the file specified.') During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "docker-compose", line 3, in <module> File "compose\cli\main.py", line 67, in main File "compose\cli\main.py", line 123, in perform_command File "compose\cli\command.py", line 69, in project_from_options File "compose\cli\command.py", line 132, in get_project File "compose\cli\docker_client.py", line 43, in get_client File "compose\cli\docker_client.py", line 170, in docker_client File "site-packages\docker\api\client.py", line 188, in __init__ File "site-packages\docker\api\client.py", line 213, in _retrieve_server_version docker.errors.DockerException: Error while fetching server API version: (2, 'CreateFile', 'The system cannot find the file specified.') 

[4332] Failed to execute script docker-compose

Thanks in Advance

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I just ran into the exact same symptoms. Turns out Docker wasn't running, and starting Docker solved the problem.

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Your docker is probably not running on your machine. Just open Docker Desktop on your computer then go the Containers section to see if its running. If it is running, switch it off then go back to your project and run "docker-compose up --build "

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