shawngmc/docker-nginx-centos repository overview

⁠docker-nginx-centos7

Nginx docker image based on the centos 7 official image and using the latest nginx from the CentOS 7 repo. Based off of Chentex's repo at https://github.com/chentex/docker-nginx-centos⁠

⁠What is Nginx?

Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a web server. It can act as a reverse proxy server for HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols, as well as a load balancer and an HTTP cache.

See: Nginx⁠

⁠What is inside of this repo?

In this git repository you will find the docker image definitions for Nginx 1.16.x in centos 7.

⁠How do I use this images?

To use this images you must do as follows:

# latest tag is the only generally populated one, as there should be only minor patch differences between versions 
docker pull shawngmc/docker-nginx-centos:latest

# to run the image just execute
docker run -d -p 80:80 shawngmc/docker-nginx-centos:latest

# to run the with a volume for /data/www
docker run -d -p 80:80 -v /custom/volume/path:/data/www shawngmc/docker-nginx-centos:latest

You will have now a docker container running nginx on centos you can look for it with

docker ps

You can log into the container with this command

docker exec -ti <container-id> bash

⁠How do I build this images?

First things first, you can find these docker images in shawngmc/docker-nginx-centos but you can also build a specific version on your own, you only need:

• docker

Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/shawngmc/docker-nginx-centos.git

Go to the folder in your terminal and type this:

# Then build the new image
docker build -f Dockerfile .

If you want to tag your image use the following command

docker build -f Dockerfile -t yourbase/yourname:version .

For more on docker build reference to the Documentation⁠

You can get the source from the images in the Repository⁠