# CommonAccord ## How to run the docker image? If you have a docker setup, including environment export, up and running, you can `make run` to have a stack up in a few seconds. The first run will take a bit of time as docker downloads the PHP/Apache image, but subsequent runs should take less than a second. Running the code using the docker method have several benefits. One of the most obvious is that the codebase is decoupled from the documents base: while the code is running in an isolated container within docker, your documents can stay on your computer wherever you want. You just need to specify `DOCPATH=...` on run to have your documents mounted (read/write) into the runtime container. For example:: DOCPATH=/Users/johndoe/Documents/LegalDocuments make start