diff --git a/compute-1-mep/conduwuit/docker-compose.yaml b/compute-1-mep/conduwuit/docker-compose.yaml
index 694fc25..f6575c0 100644
--- a/compute-1-mep/conduwuit/docker-compose.yaml
+++ b/compute-1-mep/conduwuit/docker-compose.yaml
@@ -25,7 +25,9 @@ services:
       CONDUWUIT_LOG: warn,state_res=warn
       CONDUWUIT_ADDRESS: 0.0.0.0 # because in a container
     env_file:
-      - .env
+      - path: .env
+        required: false
+
     #cpuset: "0-4" # Uncomment to limit to specific CPU cores
     ulimits: # conduwuit uses quite a few file descriptors, and on some systems it defaults to 1024, so you can tell docker to increase it
       nofile: