# Got stuck on 1st step creating new site
**URL:** https://community.kinsta.com/t/got-stuck-on-1st-step-creating-new-site/5506
**Category:** Application Support
**Created:** [September 23, 2025, 8:18pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/got-stuck-on-1st-step-creating-new-site/5506 "2025-09-23T20:18:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@mbird1981](https://community.kinsta.com/u/mbird1981)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2025, 8:18pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/got-stuck-on-1st-step-creating-new-site/5506/1 "2025-09-23T20:18:19Z")
Hi,
I get stuck on creating new site. It seems Nginx cinfiguration is not working.
Here is the log. Seems my docker cannot creat docker-desktop-data folder
Does this happen to anyone? Thanks!
[2025-09-24 04:14:13.653] [info] [getDevKinstaPath] get DevKinsta path
[2025-09-24 04:14:13.653] [info] [isWslMode] check if docker runs on wsl mode
[2025-09-24 04:14:13.654] [info] [getDockerInfo] get Docker info
[2025-09-24 04:14:13.712] [info] [createCertficiate] Certificate created.
[2025-09-24 04:14:13.959] [error] [createCertficiate] Creating certificates failed. UNKNOWN: unknown error, open ‘\wsl.localhost\docker-desktop-data\data\docker\volumes\DevKinsta\ssl\wqwdsfsadf.local.crt’
[2025-09-24 04:14:13.960] [error] [ipcMainStep] Error in operation SITE\_CREATION, step webserver: Error: UNKNOWN: unknown error, open ‘\wsl.localhost\docker-desktop-data\data\docker\volumes\DevKinsta\ssl\wqwdsfsadf.local.crt’
[2025-09-24 04:14:15.904] [info] [initSiteFolder] initializing site folder wqwdsfsadf
[2025-09-24 04:14:15.904] [info] [dockerUtil/getContainer] Get ‘devkinsta\_fpm’ Docker container
[2025-09-24 04:14:15.947] [info] [containerExec] Command ‘test -d /www/kinsta/public/wqwdsfsadf && echo $?’ on devkinsta\_fpm finished with exit code 0
[2025-09-24 04:14:15.948] [info] [dockerUtil/getContainer] Get ‘devkinsta\_fpm’ Docker container
[2025-09-24 04:14:15.948] [warn] [initSiteFolder] sitePath exists. Removing folder
[2025-09-24 04:14:16.012] [info] [containerExec] Command ‘rm -Rf /www/kinsta/public/wqwdsfsadf’ on devkinsta\_fpm finished with exit code 0
[2025-09-24 04:14:16.042] [info] [containerExec] Command ‘mkdir /www/kinsta/public/wqwdsfsadf’ on devkinsta\_fpm finished with exit code 0
[2025-09-24 04:14:16.043] [info] [createCertficiate] Creating SSL certificates for wqwdsfsadf.local
[2025-09-24 04:14:16.043] [info] [getDevKinstaPath] get DevKinsta path
[2025-09-24 04:14:16.044] [info] [isWslMode] check if docker runs on wsl mode
[2025-09-24 04:14:16.044] [info] [getDockerInfo] get Docker info
[2025-09-24 04:14:16.163] [info] [createCertficiate] Certificate created.
[2025-09-24 04:14:16.172] [error] [createCertficiate] Creating certificates failed. UNKNOWN: unknown error, open ‘\wsl.localhost\docker-desktop-data\data\docker\volumes\DevKinsta\ssl\wqwdsfsadf.local.crt’
[2025-09-24 04:14:16.172] [error] [ipcMainStep] Error in operation SITE\_CREATION, step webserver: Error: UNKNOWN: unknown error, open ‘\wsl.localhost\docker-desktop-data\data\docker\volumes\DevKinsta\ssl\wqwdsfsadf.local.crt’
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### Author:  [@mbird1981](https://community.kinsta.com/u/mbird1981)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2025, 8:45pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/got-stuck-on-1st-step-creating-new-site/5506/2 "2025-09-23T20:45:14Z")
Well, after a whole night I finally found what is the problem. Check here [Does not exist docker-desktop-data · Issue #14264 · docker/for-win · GitHub](https://github.com/docker/for-win/issues/14264)
If you fresh new install DevKinsta and Docker desktop, you will 100% meet this issue. The new verion Docker Desktop (after 4.30.0) does not generate docker-desktop-data folder. Which means DevKinsta cannot configue Nginx and download data into Docker. Totally not work anymore.
**You must downgrade Docker Desktop to version 4.29.0.** Then it works!
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### Author:  [@mbird1981](https://community.kinsta.com/u/mbird1981)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2025, 8:48pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/got-stuck-on-1st-step-creating-new-site/5506/3 "2025-09-23T20:48:33Z")
This is a big issue if DevKinsta doesnot make modification to fit new version of Docker. **it will drive away every new user**.
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### Author:  [@VladimirM](https://community.kinsta.com/u/VladimirM)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2025, 6:12am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/got-stuck-on-1st-step-creating-new-site/5506/4 "2025-09-24T06:12:39Z")
Hello @mbird1981 👋 I want to thank you for bringing this up.
The above is correct, we noticed some issues with recent Docker versions when used with DevKinsta. DevKinsta was in maintenance/security updates mode for some time but our developers have recently started working on it again.
While I don’t have an exact ETA, I can assure you we’ve collected feedback from users globally and will be working on resolving this and other issues in the future.
Kind regards 🙂