Phorge recipe's database starts without a root password
The service project-db-1 did not start (unhealthy), so the application was not started either. It printed: 2026-10-02 08:59:02+00:00 [ERROR] [Entrypoint]: Database is uninitialized and password option is not specified You need to specify one of the following as an environment variable: - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD - MYSQL_ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD - MYSQL_RANDOM_ROOT_PASSWORD 2026-10-02 08:59:03+00:00 [Note] [Entrypoint]: Entrypoint sc… The full output is in the deploy log.
TypeErrorAn error that occurred in the deployed application. It is not necessarily a PanelAlpha Engine error, but we keep working on improvements so you run into fewer of them.
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StatusIn AnalysisOur team will look into this soon, verify the cause and try to fix it in an upcoming release.
Why it happens
The engine's Phorge recipe runs its own MySQL server and relied on the engine filling in that server's passwords. The engine no longer does that for a recipe's own compose file, so MySQL refuses to start.
What the log looks like
Deploy log
error: service project-db-1 did not start (unhealthy): 2026-10-02 08:59:02+00:00 [ERROR] [Entrypoint]: Database is uninitialized and password option is not specified You need to specify one of the following as an environment variable: - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD - MYSQL_ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD - MYSQL_RANDOM_ROOT_PASSWORD 2026-10-02 08:59:03+00:00 [Note] [Entrypoint]: Entrypoint script for MySQL Server 8.0.46-1.el9 started.Container project-db-1 Error dependency db failed to startdependency failed to start: container project-db-1 is unhealthy