mreferre / nginx-custom-site

A standard nginx docker image whose serving files could be customized with an environment variable

By default this custom NGINX docker image behave like a regular stock NGINX image. However, it also supports a few customizations if and when needed in addition to have extended packages for convenience.

The customizations supported are:

• if the INDEX_HTML_CONTENT system variable is passed to the container, the image will replace the index.html file with the content of the variable and turning the body style to lightblue
• if the HTTP_PORT system variable is passed to the container, the image will configure the /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf to listen on the port specified in the variable

The additional packages included are:

• curl (this is useful to facilitate live debugging or facilitating the creation of containers health checks e.g. curl -f http://localhost/ || exit 1 from within the container)

A docker image is already available on Docker Hub as mreferre/nginx-custom-site.

####Usage

The command below is equivalent to run the stock nginx docker image:

docker run --rm -d -P mreferre/nginx-custom-site:latest

The command below runs a stock nginx image replacing the default index.html file with the settings of the INDEX_HTML_CONTENT variable and will replace the default port 80 in the /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf file with port 8080:

docker run --rm -d -e INDEX_HTML_CONTENT="My custom web site" -e HTTP_PORT=8080 -p 8080:8080 mreferre/nginx-custom-site:latest

The variables can be used independently.