nginx (pronounced "engine-x") is an open source reverse proxy server for HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, POP3 and IMAP protocols, as well as a load balancer, HTTP cache, and a web server (origin server).
docker run --name nginx bitnami/nginx:latest
version: '2'
services:
nginx:
image: 'bitnami/nginx:latest'
ports:
- '80:80'
- '443:443'
The recommended way to get the Bitnami nginx Docker Image is to pull the prebuilt image from the Docker Hub Registry.
docker pull bitnami/nginx:latest
To use a specific version, you can pull a versioned tag. You can view the list of available versions in the Docker Hub Registry.
docker pull bitnami/nginx:[TAG]
If you wish, you can also build the image yourself.
docker build -t bitnami/nginx:latest https://github.com/bitnami/bitnami-docker-nginx.git
This nginx image exposes a volume at /app
. Content mounted here is served by the default catch-all virtual host.
docker run -v /path/to/app:/app bitnami/nginx:latest
or using Docker Compose:
version: '2'
services:
nginx:
image: 'bitnami/nginx:latest'
ports:
- '80:80'
- '443:443'
volumes:
- /path/to/app:/app
To access your web server from your host machine you can ask Docker to map a random port on your host to ports 80
and 443
exposed in the container.
docker run --name nginx -P bitnami/nginx:latest
Run docker port
to determine the random ports Docker assigned.
$ docker port nginx
443/tcp -> 0.0.0.0:32768
80/tcp -> 0.0.0.0:32769
You can also manually specify the ports you want forwarded from your host to the container.
docker run -p 8080:80 -p 8443:443 bitnami/nginx:latest
Access your web server in the browser by navigating to http://localhost:8080.
The default nginx.conf includes virtual hosts placed in /bitnami/nginx/conf/vhosts/*.conf
. You can mount a directory at /bitnami/nginx/conf/vhosts
from your host containing your custom virtual hosts.
docker run -v /path/to/nginx-persistence/vhosts:/bitnami/nginx/conf/vhosts bitnami/nginx:latest
or using Docker Compose:
version: '2'
services:
nginx:
image: 'bitnami/nginx:latest'
ports:
- '80:80'
- '443:443'
volumes:
- /path/to/nginx-persistence/vhosts:/bitnami/nginx/conf/vhosts
NOTE: The steps below assume that you are using a custom domain name and that you have already configured the custom domain name to point to your server.
This container comes with SSL support already pre-configured and with a dummy certificate in place (server.crt
and server.key
files in /bitnami/nginx/conf/bitnami/certs
). If you want to use your own certificate (.crt
) and certificate key (.key
) files, follow the steps below:
In your local computer, create a folder called certs
and put your certificates files. Make sure you rename both files to server.crt
and server.key
respectively:
mkdir /path/to/nginx-persistence/conf/bitnami/certs -p
cp /path/to/certfile.crt /path/to/nginx-persistence/conf/bitnami/certs/server.crt
cp /path/to/keyfile.key /path/to/nginx-persistence/conf/bitnami/certs/server.key
Run the Nginx image, mounting the certificates directory from your host.
docker run --name nginx \
-v /path/to/nginx-persistence/conf/bitnami/certs:/bitnami/nginx/conf/bitnami/certs \
bitnami/nginx:latest
or using Docker Compose:
version: '2'
services:
nginx:
image: 'bitnami/nginx:latest'
ports:
- '80:80'
- '443:443'
volumes:
- /path/to/nginx-persistence/conf/bitnami/certs:/bitnami/nginx/conf/bitnami/certs
This container looks for configuration in /bitnami/nginx/conf
. You can mount a directory at /bitnami/nginx/
with your own configuration, or the default configuration will be copied to your directory at conf/
if it's empty.
Run the nginx image, mounting a directory from your host.
docker run --name nginx -v /path/to/nginx-persistence:/bitnami/nginx bitnami/nginx:latest
or using Docker Compose:
version: '2'
services:
nginx:
image: 'bitnami/nginx:latest'
ports:
- '80:80'
- '443:443'
volumes:
- /path/to/nginx-persistence:/bitnami/nginx
Edit the configuration on your host using your favorite editor.
vi /path/to/nginx-persistence/conf/nginx.conf
After changing the configuration, restart your nginx container for changes to take effect.
docker restart nginx
or using Docker Compose:
docker-compose restart nginx
This image includes the Pagespeed module for nginx.
In order to activate it, mount the configuration volume following the steps in Full Configuration section above and edit the file located at /path/to/nginx-persistence/conf/bitnami/bitnami.conf
adding the following snippet inside the server
directive:
pagespeed on;
# needs to exist and be writable by nginx
pagespeed FileCachePath /installdir/nginx/var/ngx_pagespeed_cache;
location ~ "\.pagespeed\.([a-z]\.)?[a-z]{2}\.[^.]{10}\.[^.]+" { add_header "" ""; }
location ~ "^/ngx_pagespeed_static/" { }
location ~ "^/ngx_pagespeed_beacon$" { }
location /ngx_pagespeed_statistics { allow 127.0.0.1; deny all; }
location /ngx_pagespeed_message { allow 127.0.0.1; deny all; }
Then, restart nginx or reload its configuration following the steps in the Restart nginx section.
nginx can be used to reverse proxy to other containers using Docker's linking system. This is particularly useful if you want to serve dynamic content through an nginx frontend. Bitnami provides example virtual hosts for all of our runtime containers in /bitnami/nginx/conf/vhosts/
.
Further Reading:
The Bitnami nginx Docker image sends the container logs to the stdout
. To view the logs:
docker logs nginx
or using Docker Compose:
docker-compose logs nginx
You can configure the containers logging driver using the --log-driver
option if you wish to consume the container logs differently. In the default configuration docker uses the json-file
driver.
To backup your nginx configurations, follow these simple steps:
docker stop nginx
or using Docker Compose:
docker-compose stop nginx
We need to mount two volumes in a container we will use to create the backup: a directory on your host to store the backup in, and the volumes from the container we just stopped so we can access the data.
docker run --rm -v /path/to/nginx-backups:/backups \
--volumes-from nginx busybox:latest \
cp -a /bitnami/nginx /backups/latest
or using Docker Compose:
docker run --rm -v /path/to/nginx-backups:/backups \
--volumes-from `docker-compose ps -q nginx` busybox:latest \
cp -a /bitnami/nginx /backups/latest
Restoring a backup is as simple as mounting the backup as volumes in the container.
docker run -v /path/to/nginx-backups/latest:/bitnami/nginx bitnami/nginx:latest
or using Docker Compose:
version: '2'
services:
nginx:
image: 'bitnami/nginx:latest'
ports:
- '80:80'
- '443:443'
volumes:
- /path/to/nginx-backups/latest:/bitnami/nginx
Bitnami provides up-to-date versions of nginx, including security patches, soon after they are made upstream. We recommend that you follow these steps to upgrade your container.
docker pull bitnami/nginx:latest
or if you're using Docker Compose, update the value of the image property to
bitnami/nginx:latest
.
Before continuing, you should backup your container's configuration and logs.
Follow the steps on creating a backup.
docker rm -v nginx
or using Docker Compose:
docker-compose rm -v nginx
Re-create your container from the new image, restoring your backup if necessary.
docker run --name nginx bitnami/nginx:latest
or using Docker Compose:
docker-compose start nginx
- The configuration volume has been moved to
/bitnami/nginx
. Now you only need to mount a single volume at/bitnami/nginx
for persisting configuration./app
is still used for serving content by the default virtual host. - The logs are always sent to the
stdout
and are no longer collected in the volume.
/app
directory is no longer exported as a volume. This caused problems when building on top of the image, since changes in the volume are not persisted between DockerfileRUN
instructions. To keep the previous behavior (so that you can mount the volume in another container), create the container with the-v /app
option.
We'd love for you to contribute to this container. You can request new features by creating an issue, or submit a pull request with your contribution.
If you encountered a problem running this container, you can file an issue. For us to provide better support, be sure to include the following information in your issue:
- Host OS and version
- Docker version (
docker version
) - Output of
docker info
- Version of this container (
echo $BITNAMI_IMAGE_VERSION
inside the container) - The command you used to run the container, and any relevant output you saw (masking any sensitive information)
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