# \[SOLVED\] Creating with non-root user can't establish connection to the server

**URL:** <https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/t/solved-creating-with-non-root-user-cant-establish-connection-to-the-server/172>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [July 3, 2020, 7:53pm UTC](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/t/solved-creating-with-non-root-user-cant-establish-connection-to-the-server/172 "2020-07-03T19:53:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![IOUSiVer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8dc957/32.png) [@IOUSiVer](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/u/IOUSiVer)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 7:53pm UTC](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/t/solved-creating-with-non-root-user-cant-establish-connection-to-the-server/172/1 "2020-07-03T19:53:13Z")

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If I use the root user as in this docker-compose file:

version: ‘2’  
services:  
bitwarden:  
image: bitwardenrs/server:raspberry  
container\_name: bitwarden  
networks:  
- lsio  
volumes:  
- /home/username/docker/bitwarden/bw-data:/data  
ports:  
- 8005:80  
restart: unless-stopped  
networks:  
lsio:  
external:  
name: lsio

The stack successfully deploys and is in good health and I’m able to navigate to :8005 and bitwarden page shows up in the browser. However, I’m unable to create a new account. The submit button is completely non-responsive. Does nothing. Appreciate help on this one also. 🙂

For security reasons as this will be an internet facing server, I want to use a non-root user. I change the docker-compose file to:

version: ‘2’  
services:  
bitwarden:  
image: bitwardenrs/server:raspberry  
user: 1001:1001  
container\_name: bitwarden  
networks:  
- lsio  
volumes:  
- /home/username/docker/bitwarden/bw-data:/data  
ports:  
- 8005:1024  
environment:  
- ROCKET\_PORT=8080  
restart: unless-stopped  
networks:  
lsio:  
external:  
name: lsio

Again, the stack creating is fine, no errors. The sqllite db and other cert files are being created under bw-data.Container is healthy.

From the logs:

[2020-07-03 19:41:40][bitwarden\_rs][INFO] JWT keys don’t exist, checking if OpenSSL is available…  
OpenSSL 1.1.1d 10 Sep 2019  
[2020-07-03 19:41:40][bitwarden\_rs][INFO] OpenSSL detected, creating keys…  
Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus (2 primes)  
…+++++  
…+++++  
e is 65537 (0x010001)  
writing RSA key  
writing RSA key  
[2020-07-03 19:41:40][bitwarden\_rs][INFO] Keys created correctly.  
Running migration 20180114171611  
Running migration 20180217205753  
Running migration 20180427155151  
Running migration 20180508161616  
Running migration 20180525232323  
Running migration 20180601112529  
Running migration 20180711181453  
Running migration 20180827172114  
Running migration 20180910111213  
Running migration 20180919144557  
Running migration 20181127152651  
Running migration 20190526216651  
Running migration 20191010083032  
Running migration 20191117011009  
Running migration 20200313205045  
Running migration 20200409235005  
[2020-07-03 19:41:42][start][INFO] Rocket has launched from [http://0.0.0.0:8080](http://0.0.0.0:8080)

The problem is now I’m unable to connect when I navigate to :8005.  
Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at 192.168.xxx.xx:8005.

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**Author:** ![jjlin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@jjlin](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/u/jjlin)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 10:11pm UTC](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/t/solved-creating-with-non-root-user-cant-establish-connection-to-the-server/172/2 "2020-07-03T22:11:07Z")

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You set `ROCKET_PORT` to 8080, which tells bitwarden\_rs to listen on port 8080, but then you told Docker to connect to bitwarden\_rs on port 1024. These port values have to match.

For your other issue, first open the browser developer tools (pressing F12 usually works), then try to create a new account and check the network tab for any failed requests.

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**Author:** ![IOUSiVer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8dc957/32.png) [@IOUSiVer](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/u/IOUSiVer)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 6:45pm UTC](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/t/solved-creating-with-non-root-user-cant-establish-connection-to-the-server/172/3 "2020-07-05T18:45:06Z")

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Thank you! Solved the issue.