turgon37/nginx repository overview

⁠Docker Nginx

This images contains an instance of Nginx and a base template for a secure configuration. This image use the concept of site-available and site-enable to make the configuration of virtual hosts more flexible.

Please notice that if it's the first time the container is run, the DH parameters file will be generated and this can take a long time.

Nginx is configured according to the recommandations on this site⁠

It is not intended to be used directly but to be extend for building another nginx image with contains your virtual hosts configurations.

⁠Docker Informations

• This image expose the following port

• This image takes theses environnements variables as parameters

| Environment | Usage | | ----------- | --------------- ------------------------------------- | | ENABLE_HTTPS| Set to yes to enable docker https features. Set to no to speed up the first run| | NGINX_USER | The user that nginx worker will use | | NGINX_GROUP | The group that nginx worker will use |

• The following volume is exposed by this image

⁠Installation

• Manual build from sources

git clone
docker build -t turgon37/nginx .

• or Automatic pull from hub

docker pull turgon37/nginx

⁠Usage

Use it as a base for your own nginx images.

This image contains two folder, /etc/nginx/sites-available and /etc/nginx/sites-enabled. In the first you can put a file per virtual host, each of them will contains the nginx directives. Then, you must create a symbolik link into the sites-enabled for each virtual host you want to enable. Take care that the path the symlink must be either relative or absolute from the docker root directory. I recommands you to use a relative one by using a command like this from the sites-available folder : ln -s ../sites-available/php

As an example you can create a project folder which contain the two folder sites-available and sites-enabled. Then, you just have to create a dockerfile which encapsulate this image.

FROM turgon37/nginx

# copy local files
COPY sites-available/ /etc/nginx/sites-available
COPY sites-enabled/ /etc/nginx/sites-enabled

Or another way can be to use a host mount point

docker run
   -v $(pwd)/sites-enabled:/etc/nginx/sites-enabled:ro 
   -v $(pwd)/sites-available:/etc/nginx/sites-available:ro 
   -p 80:80
   turgon37/nginx