medic database not found when running locally with docker

[njuguna-n]

Describe the bug When trying to run CHT Sync locally with docker compose, the coucdb container created does not have the medic database so there is an error that is thrown.

To Reproduce

1. clone the repo locally
2. copy the env.template to .env
3. run docker compose -f docker-compose.postgres.yml -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.couchdb.yml up -d

Expected behavior CHT Sync should start and connect to the couchdb instance without any errors

Logs

2024-09-10 11:25:34 node:internal/process/promises:391
2024-09-10 11:25:34     triggerUncaughtException(err, true /* fromPromise */);
2024-09-10 11:25:34     ^
2024-09-10 11:25:34 {
2024-09-10 11:25:34   error: 'not_found',
2024-09-10 11:25:34   reason: 'Database does not exist.',
2024-09-10 11:25:34   status: 404,
2024-09-10 11:25:34   name: 'not_found',
2024-09-10 11:25:34   message: 'Database does not exist.',
2024-09-10 11:25:34   stack: 'Error\n' +
2024-09-10 11:25:34     '    at Object.generateErrorFromResponse (/node_modules/pouchdb-errors/lib/index.js:100:18)\n' +
2024-09-10 11:25:34     '    at fetchJSON (/node_modules/pouchdb-adapter-http/lib/index.js:251:31)\n' +
2024-09-10 11:25:34     '    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)\n' +
2024-09-10 11:25:34     '    at async fetchData (/node_modules/pouchdb-adapter-http/lib/index.js:1029:24)'
2024-09-10 11:25:34 }
2024-09-10 11:25:34 
2024-09-10 11:25:34 Node.js v20.17.0

Screenshots

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Related forum post

[njuguna-n]

Updated documentation and responded the forum