Basic Nginx container (static file)

Question

I am trying to do the simplest possible container with Nginx hosting a simple index.html file. But I can't seem to get it working. I must be missing a concept somewhere and I am hoping for a bit of help. Here is what I am doing:

I have a folder with 2 files in it:

Dockerfile

FROM nginx:1.18.0

WORKDIR /usr/share/nginx/html
COPY index.html ./

index.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Testing</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <p>Hello Test App</p>
    </body>
</html>

First I build the container. From the folder that has the files, I run this command:

docker image build --tag nginx-test:1.0.0 --file ./Dockerfile .

Then I run the container:

docker run -d -p 3737:3737 nginx-test:1.0.0

Then I browse to http://localhost:3737 (I also tried http://localhost:3737/index.html) and chrome shows an ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE error:

How can I get my index.html file to be hosted in my container?

Vaccano · Accepted Answer · 2021-03-01 22:40:47Z

1

The problem was with this command:

docker run -d -p 3737:3737 nginx-test:1.0.0

The -p option is selecting the ports. The first port is what will be exposed on the host machine. The second port is what will be used to communicate with the container. By default, nginx uses port 80 (like most web servers).

So changing that command to:

docker run -d -p 3737:80 nginx-test:1.0.0

Causes the rest of the steps in my scenario to work correctly.

answered Mar 1, 2021 at 22:40

Vaccano

83.2k163 gold badges509 silver badges927 bronze badges

Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments.

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

Basic Nginx container (static file)

1 Answer 1

Comments

Hot Network Questions

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

1 Answer 1

Comments

Related