From 0f1ec4921690f24b193b3e12d015f7e600760ff0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: colin <colin.williams.dev@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2026 07:56:59 +0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix(compose): force api build to avoid stale published image
 (#48)

Set pull_policy: build on the api service so docker compose up always builds from apps/api/Dockerfile instead of pulling the stale 2024-09-06 trieve/firecrawl:latest image (corepack signature failure). Reconcile README and SELF_HOST.md with the build-from-source path.
---
 README.md           |  5 +++++
 SELF_HOST.md        | 12 ++++++++++--
 docker-compose.yaml |  1 +
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b57bc2bbf3..2d9e0a8924 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -37,6 +37,11 @@ Fire-engine, Firecrawl's solution for anti-bot pages, being closed source is the
 
 ## How to self host?
 
+> **Warning — published Docker images are currently stale.**
+> The `trieve/firecrawl` and `trieve/puppeteer-service-ts` images on Docker Hub were last published in September 2024 and no longer start because the bundled `corepack` predates npm's registry signing-key rotation (`Cannot find matching keyid`). There is no release-triggered publish workflow in this repo, so `:latest` and the pinned tags below have drifted.
+>
+> **To self-host today, build from source instead of pulling published images.** Clone this repo and run `docker compose up -d` from the repo root — the `docker-compose.yaml` is wired for local builds (the `api` service sets `pull_policy: build` so it always builds from `apps/api/Dockerfile` and never pulls). See [`SELF_HOST.md`](./SELF_HOST.md) for the full walkthrough. The snippet below will work as-is once the images are republished.
+
 You should add the following services to your docker-compose as follows. We trust that you can configure Kubernetes or other hosting solutions to run these services.
 
 ```yaml
diff --git a/SELF_HOST.md b/SELF_HOST.md
index 0dc753b594..4d18009311 100644
--- a/SELF_HOST.md
+++ b/SELF_HOST.md
@@ -74,11 +74,19 @@ PLAYWRIGHT_MICROSERVICE_URL=  # set if you'd like to run a playwright fallback
         
     *   Don't forget to set the proxy server in your `.env` file as needed.
 
-4.  Build and run the Docker containers:
+4.  Build and run the Docker containers.
+
+    The `api` service in `docker-compose.yaml` sets `pull_policy: build`, so Compose builds it from `apps/api/Dockerfile` and never pulls the stale published `trieve/firecrawl:latest` image (see issue [#48](https://github.com/devflowinc/firecrawl-simple/issues/48)). `docker compose up -d` is enough:
     
+    ```bash
+    docker compose up -d
+    ```
+
+    If you prefer, the explicit two-step form is equivalent:
+
     ```bash
     docker compose build
-    docker compose up
+    docker compose up -d
     ```
 
 This will run a local instance of Firecrawl which can be accessed at `http://localhost:3002`.
diff --git a/docker-compose.yaml b/docker-compose.yaml
index 5b98cfecce..b9f4de58eb 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yaml
+++ b/docker-compose.yaml
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ services:
   api:
     image: trieve/firecrawl
     <<: *common-service
+    pull_policy: build
     depends_on:
       - redis
       - puppeteer-service