diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 34102ed..0078c20 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 FROM python:3.9-alpine
 
-WORKDIR /Forum
+WORKDIR /Forum-Sandbox
 
 ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE 1
 ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED 1
@@ -13,4 +13,4 @@ RUN pip install --upgrade pip
 COPY ./requirements.txt .
 RUN pip3 install -r requirements.txt
 
-COPY . /Forum
+COPY . /Forum-Sandbox
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 026d2f7..2df7a86 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -1 +1,42 @@
-version: ''
+version: '3.9'
+
+services:
+  web:
+    build: .
+    command: gunicorn forum.wsgi:application --bind 0.0.0.0:8000
+    volumes:
+      - ./:/Forum
+    ports:
+      - 8000:8000
+    env_file:
+      - sample.env
+    depends_on:
+      - db
+  db:
+    image: postgres:14
+    restart: always
+    volumes:
+      - db_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
+    environment:
+      POSTGRES_USER: ${PG_USER}
+      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: ${PG_PASSWORD}
+      POSTGRES_DB: ${PG_DB}
+      PGDATABASE: ${PG_DB}
+      PGPASSWORD: ${PG_PASSWORD}
+      PGUSER: ${PG_USER}
+    ports:
+      - ${DB_PORT}:5432
+  pgadmin4:
+    container_name: forum_pgadmin4
+    image: dpage/pgadmin4
+    restart: always
+    environment:
+      PGADMIN_DEFAULT_EMAIL: admin@admin.com   # your email to login at http://localhost:5050/
+      PGADMIN_DEFAULT_PASSWORD: 1  # your password to login at http://localhost:5050/
+    ports:
+      - "5050:80"
+    volumes:
+      - pgadmin-data:/var/lib/pgadmin/data
+volumes:
+  db_data:
+  pgadmin-data:
diff --git a/sample.env b/sample.env
index d42fcc1..f11d28d 100644
--- a/sample.env
+++ b/sample.env
@@ -1,18 +1,18 @@
 #db details
-SECRET_KEY= 
-PG_DB=
-PG_USER=
-PG_PASSWORD=
-DB_HOST= 
-DB_PORT=
+SECRET_KEY= 1111
+PG_DB= Forum-Sandbox
+PG_USER= user
+PG_PASSWORD= postgres
+DB_HOST= db
+DB_PORT= 5432
 
 #SMTP
 EMAIL_BACKEND=django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend
-EMAIL_HOST=
-EMAIL_PORT=
-EMAIL_USE_TLS=
-EMAIL_HOST_USER=
-EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD=
+EMAIL_HOST= someuser@gmail.com
+EMAIL_PORT= 587
+EMAIL_USE_TLS= 1
+EMAIL_HOST_USER= test@test.com
+EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD= test-password
 
 #origin hostnames allowed to make cross-site HTTP requests
 CORS_ORIGIN_WHITELIST=