diff --git a/backend/open_webui/apps/retrieval/main.py b/backend/open_webui/apps/retrieval/main.py
index 118a3e203..2a79ac90f 100644
--- a/backend/open_webui/apps/retrieval/main.py
+++ b/backend/open_webui/apps/retrieval/main.py
@@ -193,7 +193,8 @@ def update_reranking_model(
         if any(model in reranking_model for model in ["jinaai/jina-colbert-v2"]):
             try:
                 app.state.sentence_transformer_rf = ColBERT(
-                    get_model_path(reranking_model, auto_update)
+                    get_model_path(reranking_model, auto_update),
+                    env="docker" if DOCKER else None,
                 )
             except Exception as e:
                 log.error(f"ColBERT: {e}")