I followed these steps to set up QWC services https://github.com/qwc-services/qwc-services-core#quick-start and I can run the demo. But if load my own QGIS project, I receive the following error message:
qwc-qgis-server_1              | 07:50:07 WARNING Server[99]: <ServerException>Layer(s) not valid</ServerException>
qwc-qgis-server_1              | 
qwc-qgis-server_1              | 07:50:07 WARNING ClearCapabilities[99]: Cached cleared : /data/MeasurementDemo.qgs
qwc-qgis-server_1              | 07:50:07 WARNING PostGIS[99]: Connection to database failed
qwc-qgis-server_1              | could not connect to server: No such file or directory
qwc-qgis-server_1              |    Is the server running locally and accepting
qwc-qgis-server_1              |    connections on Unix domain socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
qwc-qgis-server_1              | 
qwc-qgis-server_1              | 07:50:07 CRITICAL Server[99]: Error, Layer(s) measurement_b46e976f_2d0f_4bf0_942a_9d9462b40c3e not valid in project /data/MeasurementDemo.qgs
qwc-qgis-server_1              | 07:50:07 WARNING Server[99]: <ServerException>Layer(s) not valid</ServerException>
qwc-qgis-server_1              | 
qwc-config-service_1           | [2022-01-04 07:50:09,360] WARNING in config_generator: Skipping theme item '': Could not get capabilities for /ows/MeasurementDemo
qwc-config-service_1           | [2022-01-04 07:50:19,468] CRITICAL in config_generator: The generation of the configuration files resulted in a failure
qwc-config-service_1           | [2022-01-04 07:50:19,468] CRITICAL in config_generator: The configuration files were not updated!
qwc-config-service_1           | [2022-01-04 07:50:20,856] CRITICAL in config_generator: The generation of the permission files resulted in a failure.
qwc-config-service_1           | [2022-01-04 07:50:20,857] CRITICAL in config_generator: The permission files were not updated!
qwc-config-service_1           | [pid: 15|app: 0|req: 18/18] 172.18.0.11 () {30 vars in 408 bytes} [Tue Jan  4 07:50:05 2022] POST /generate_configs?tenant=default => generated 2881 bytes in 15083 msecs (HTTP/1.1 200) 2 headers in 81 bytes (1 switches on core 0)
As the error is quite similar to this question: PostgreSQL: Why psql can't connect to server?, I followed the answers but with no result.
ps -ef | grep postgres gives me the following result:
postgres  203911       1  0 07:35 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/postgresql/13/bin/postgres -D /var/lib/postgresql/13/main -c config_file=/etc/postgresql/13/main/postgresql.conf
Also I found the socket in
/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432
And I run the command
psql -h /var/run/postgresql/ GeoDB
But without result. After that I checked the ph_hba.conf File:
# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
local   all             all                                     peer
Running the command pg_lsclusters gives me:
Ver Cluster Port Status Owner    Data directory              Log file
13  main    5432 online postgres /var/lib/postgresql/13/main /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-13-main.log
Also after restarting the pg_ctlcluster and PostgreSQL the error remained the same.
Edit 1
After the answer from cnaimi I checked the postgresql.confFile:
# - Connection Settings -
#listen_addresses = '*'         # what IP address(es) to listen on;
                                # comma-separated list of addresses;
                                # defaults to 'localhost'; use '*' for all
                                # (change requires restart)
port = 5432                     # (change requires restart)
max_connections = 100           # (change requires restart)
#superuser_reserved_connections = 3 # (change requires restart)
unix_socket_directories = '/var/run/postgresql' # comma-separated list of directories
                                # (change requires restart)
#unix_socket_group = '*'        # (change requires restart)
#unix_socket_permissions = 0777     # begin with 0 to use octal notation
                                # (change requires restart)
#bonjour = off                  # advertise server via Bonjour
                                # (change requires restart)
#bonjour_name = ''              # defaults to the computer name
                                # (change requires restart)
But I can't find an error there as the port is 5432 and it listen to all adresses.
Edit 2
During my search I found several pg_service.conf Files:
./qwc-services/qwc-docker/wsgi-service/pg_service.conf
./qwc-services/qwc-docker/qgis-server/pg_service.conf
./qwc-services/qwc-docker/postgis/pg_service.conf
./qwc-services/qwc-docker/pg_service.conf
Each if them contain one or more credentials for databases like the one below:
[qwc_geodb]
host=qwc-postgis
port=5432
dbname=qwc_demo
user=qwc_service
password=qwc_service
sslmode=disable
The port is in all files correct, as far as I saw. But of course the db name and user/password are wrong. Does this could cause the error? Or does QWS get the credentials through the .qgs file?
Edit 3
Thanks to the hints from Devdatta Tengshe I set the host for PostgreSQL to 127.0.0.1. By using sudo docker-compose ps one can see the used container and their ports:
                  Name                                Command                  State                      Ports                
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
qwc-docker_qwc-admin-gui_1                 /bin/sh -c uwsgi --http-so ...   Up             127.0.0.1:5031->9090/tcp            
qwc-docker_qwc-api-gateway_1               /docker-entrypoint.sh ngin ...   Up             0.0.0.0:8088->80/tcp,:::8088->80/tcp
qwc-docker_qwc-auth-service_1              /bin/sh -c uwsgi --http-so ...   Up             127.0.0.1:5017->9090/tcp            
qwc-docker_qwc-config-service_1            /bin/sh -c uwsgi --http-so ...   Up             127.0.0.1:5010->9090/tcp            
qwc-docker_qwc-data-service_1              /bin/sh -c uwsgi --http-so ...   Up             127.0.0.1:5012->9090/tcp            
qwc-docker_qwc-elevation-service_1         /bin/sh -c uwsgi --http-so ...   Up             127.0.0.1:5002->9090/tcp            
qwc-docker_qwc-fulltext-search-service_1   /bin/sh -c uwsgi --http-so ...   Up             127.0.0.1:5011->9090/tcp            
qwc-docker_qwc-map-viewer_1                /bin/sh -c uwsgi --http-so ...   Up             127.0.0.1:5030->9090/tcp            
qwc-docker_qwc-mapinfo-service_1           /bin/sh -c uwsgi --http-so ...   Up             127.0.0.1:5016->9090/tcp            
qwc-docker_qwc-ogc-service_1               /bin/sh -c uwsgi --http-so ...   Up             127.0.0.1:5013->9090/tcp            
qwc-docker_qwc-permalink-service_1         /bin/sh -c uwsgi --http-so ...   Up             127.0.0.1:5001->9090/tcp            
qwc-docker_qwc-postgis_1                   docker-entrypoint.sh postgres    Up (healthy)   127.0.0.1:5439->5432/tcp            
qwc-docker_qwc-qgis-server_1               /sbin/my_init                    Up             127.0.0.1:8001->80/tcp              
qwc-docker_qwc-solr_1                      docker-entrypoint.sh solr- ...   Up             127.0.0.1:8983->8983/tcp
 
     
    