# Acme storage volume on Windows
**URL:** https://community.traefik.io/t/acme-storage-volume-on-windows/10439
**Category:** Traefik v2
**Tags:** docker, letsencrypt-acme
**Created:** [April 23, 2021, 4:39pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/acme-storage-volume-on-windows/10439 "2021-04-23T16:39:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Rajven](https://community.traefik.io/u/Rajven)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2021, 4:39pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/acme-storage-volume-on-windows/10439/1 "2021-04-23T16:39:25Z")
I'm running a Windows server trying to set up Traefik in Docker (Linux containers) with acme enabled and I'm encountering the famous:
`unable to get ACME account: permissions 755 for /acme.json are too open, please use 600`
I've seen some tips to do a `chmod 600 acme.json`, but that doesn't work if I do it from inside WSL or Git bash and then start the container. And what I'm trying to do is create a server that I can easily re-create without a lot of manual steps that I have to do before everything is up and running. And I'd prefer it if I didn't have to do a image of my own where I set the permissions to the file.
Is there some way I can do this through only the docker-compose file, or creating a docker volume beforehand, or scripting?
If you think including my current config here would help, I'd be happy to do it.
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### Author:  [@cakiwi](https://community.traefik.io/u/cakiwi)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2021, 5:11pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/acme-storage-volume-on-windows/10439/2 "2021-04-23T17:11:58Z")
Try a docker volume instead of a bind mount.
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### Author:  [@Rajven](https://community.traefik.io/u/Rajven)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2021, 5:48pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/acme-storage-volume-on-windows/10439/3 "2021-04-23T17:48:53Z")
You mean something like
1. Run
`docker volume create acme_data`
2. In my `docker-compose.yml`:
```auto
services:
traefik:
image: traefik:v2.4
volumes:
- "acme_data:/acme_data/"
volumes:
acme_data:
external: true
```
1. In my static configuration file `traefik.yml`
```auto
certificatesResolvers:
letsencrypt:
acme:
storage: /acme_data/acme.json
```
That seems to work. Maybe I'm just stupid. I feel like I have more control if I can have `acme.json` in the same folder as my config and everything, where I can see it. But I guess it doesn't matter if it's in some Docker generated folder. It would only be an issue if I move to another server, and then it could just request a new certificate.
I guess this works. Thanks! 🙂
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### Author:  [@cakiwi](https://community.traefik.io/u/cakiwi)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2021, 6:53pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/acme-storage-volume-on-windows/10439/4 "2021-04-23T18:53:09Z")
> [@Rajven](#):
>
> It would only be an issue if I move to another server, and then it could just request a new certificate.
You can copy in or out of a container or even mount it with another container to `cat` it or upload via cli.
`docker cp container:/path/to/file localfilename`
`docker run --rm -it -v acme-data:/data bash cat /data/acme/json`
> [@Rajven](#):
>
> I guess this works. Thanks! 🙂
You're welcome
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### Author:  [@Rajven](https://community.traefik.io/u/Rajven)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2021, 7:21pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/acme-storage-volume-on-windows/10439/5 "2021-04-23T19:21:18Z")
Thanks for trying to improve on the solution.
That would require me running some script regularly, or before and after I setup on a new server, right?
Since changes would not be reflected automatically.
That's certainly a way to go. But I'm not expecting to do that often, I mostly just want to easily replicate the setup if I need to set it up again.
So I think I'll just go with the original solution and if I have to move to a new computer It'll just have to request a new certificate.
Since my post detailing my interpretation of your solution is the most complete with examples, I'll mark that as the solution.
Thanks again!
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.traefik.io/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2021, 7:21pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/acme-storage-volume-on-windows/10439/6 "2021-04-26T19:21:57Z")
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