Not sure if this helps.

I got the command from https://hub.docker.com/r/jogetworkflow/joget-community

and modified the sample command to -v %cd%:/opt/joget/wflow

docker run -d --name joget -p 8080:8080 -e MYSQL_HOST=localhost -e MYSQL_DATABASE=jwdb -e MYSQL_PORT=3306 -e MYSQL_USER=root -e MYSQL_PASSWORD=root -v %cd%:/opt/joget/wflow jogetworkflow/joget-community

I'm able to map the actual directory from my windows to be used by Joget in the container.

thank you for your input

Your answer is not docker-compose and you are running MySQL locally (I want both running on the docker server). When I create a persistent store using the volumes in my config (see the last 2 commented lines in my docker-compose.yml file) joget doesn't even start. This I understand as it is looking for files in the /opt/joget/wflow directory which seem to get placed there when joget initially starts. As I am getting the permissions error it cannot copy the files it needs to my persistent store. I did an install without the volumes line, then copied the files that the install copies to the wflow directory to the server and finally uncommented my volume lines i.e. making it persistent but the the error "access is forbidden...". I have done a chown user:user /docker/joget and restarted the containers, this did not help though!

version: "3.9"

services:
    jdb:
        image: mysql:5.7
        volumes:
            - db_data:/var/lib/mysql
        ports:
            - "3306:3306"
        restart: always
        environment:
            MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: rootroot
            MYSQL_DATABASE: jwdb
            MYSQL_USER: joget
            MYSQL_PASSWORD: joget

    joget:
        image: jogetworkflow/joget-enterprise
        depends_on:
            - jdb
        ports:
            - "8080:8080"
        volumes:
            - ./wflow:/opt/joget/wflow
        environment:
        - MYSQL_HOST=jdb
        - MYSQL_DATABASE=jwdb
        - MYSQL_PORT=3306
        - MYSQL_USER=joget
        - MYSQL_PASSWORD=joget
volumes:
    db_data: {}

./wflow:/opt/joget/wflow

using ./wflow means, points to OS folder, where command docker-compose up -d runs. 

In your case, in the "jdb" service, try to configure the "volumes" the same way i.e. ./wflow

Then, db data is outside of docker too.

I noticed that

        - MYSQL_HOST=jdb
        - MYSQL_DATABASE=jwdb
        - MYSQL_PORT=3306
        - MYSQL_USER=joget
        - MYSQL_PASSWORD=joget

needs to be there, although not in use. it will use the datasource profile in the wflow folder.