Nginx Container.md

Running Nginx container using Docker

To start setting up Nginx container

Step 1: Pull the latest image from docker hub (https://hub.docker.com)

docker pull nginx

Step 2: Create a new directory on your machine from where you want to serve the html files.

mkdir nginx-html

Step 3: cd into that directory

cd nginx-html

Step 4: Create index.html and whatever files you like, using any text editor.

Step 5: Run this command to start the container

docker run -d -p 8000:80 -v /YOUR_HTML_FILES_ABSOLUTE_DIRECTORY_PATH:/usr/share/nginx/html --name my-nginx-container nginx

To stop the container

docker stop my-nginx-container

To start the container again

docker start my-nginx-container

To remove the stopped container

docker rm my-nginx-container

To remove the running container

docker rm my-nginx-container -f

Authors

• Truly Mittal

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.