# Troubleshooting

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## Troubleshooting

**❓ Don't you see an answer to your problem? Describe it on our** [**Developer Community Forum**](https://community.forestadmin.com/) **and we will answer quickly.**

### Error messages

#### Installation

**Docker**

🙋‍♂️I can’t connect to Postgres DB inside another docker container. I'm trying to install Forest Admin using docker but my database is running inside a different container and I'm using a custom port. I can access it without any problems via `psql` but then I get an error.

✅ Such an issue has been solved on our community forum. [Check it out.](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/cant-connect-to-postgres-db-inside-another-docker-container/725)

🙋🏾‍♂️ After installing Forest Admin with Docker, I expect to see my visual data. Instead, I'm getting such error:

![onboarding error](/files/LQ4Skjw2eqGMRRytqcjn)

✅ Such an issue has been solved on our community forum. [Check it out](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/your-server-encountered-an-error-getaddrinfo-enotfound-postgres-postgres-5432/1798).

🙋🏻 When I want to pull data from my MongoDB database when installing Forest Admin with Docker, I keep getting an error even when I changed to all access.

✅ Such an issue has been solved on our community forum. [Check it out](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/getting-error-mongoserverselectionerror-connection-monitor-to-54-71-237-255-27017-closed/3146).

🙋‍♂️ When I try to deploy lumber-admin via Docker with a remote database, I am getting an error `Error: Unprocessable Entity`

I suspect a problem on DB, but I cannot find any details or logs about this event. So, my main question is: where I can find any logs?

✅ Such an issue has been solved on our community forum. [Check it out](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/getting-error-mongoserverselectionerror-connection-monitor-to-54-71-237-255-27017-closed/3146).

🙋🏾 I was able to link my data to Forest admin (with docker, on port 5433). When I run <http://localhost:3310> it says my app is running but when I want to log to Forest Admin on <http://app.forestadmin.com/> I first have to log in and it then says *Your server encountered an error*.

✅ Such an issue has been solved on our community forum. [Check it out](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/new-postgres-db-cant-reach-forest-admin-panel/1378).

**npm**

🙋🏼‍♀️ When installing via npm, everything worked well up to the “npm start” command when I received an error.

✅ A similar issue has been solved on our community forum. [Check it out.](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/npm-start-error/1520)

**Nodejs app with Express and Sequelize**

🙋🏼 Once I create an account, a project, and then try to install Forest Admin with either an npm or a Docker, the setup fails with the error `SequelizeAssociationError`

✅ A similar issue has been solved on our community forum. [Check it out](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/setup-fails-with-sequelizeassociationerror/519).

**Ruby on Rails**

🙋🏻‍♀️ I created a new project using Ruby on Rails as the datasource. I followed instructions, added gem, migrated, `dev:cache`, and started the server. Everything went smoothly, but once on the admin panel, I am getting the following message:

*Unable to authenticate you*

*Please verify that your admin backend is correctly configured and running.*

✅ Such an issue has been solved on our community forum. [Check it out](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/unable-to-authenticate-you-please-verify-that-your-admin-backend-is-correctly-configured-and-running/2017).

#### Deployment

🙋🏽‍♀️ When I try to deploy Forest Admin to Heroku, it tells me the app crashed after running either `npm start` or `docker compose` up in the project directory.

✅ Such an issue has been solved on our community forum. [Check it out](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/h10-error-when-deploying-to-heroku/547).


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