sbland / docker-apache-boilerplate

Docker apache Setup

This is a boilerplate docker ssl apache setup. It will copy the redirect.apache.conf file to the docker container.

SSL Certificate setup

The certificate must be obtained for the virtual machine. First redirect the host address to the machines public IP Then follow the instructions below.

run ./cert_setup/certSetup.sh

or...

We need to run certbot setup using the certbot docker container

• First set the env vars export EMAIL=[e-mail] && HOST_NAME=yourhostname.com
• In certbot directory
• docker build --rm -t docker-apache2:cert .
• docker run -d -p 80:80 -v "/home/$USER/certbot/$HOST_NAME/root:/var/www/html" docker-apache2:cert
• Then run certbot:

EMAIL=<EMAIL> && HOST_NAME=<HOST_NAME> &&
docker run -it --rm --name certbot \
  -v "/home/$USER/certbot/conf:/etc/letsencrypt" \
  -v "/home/$USER/certbot/www:/var/www/certbot" \
  -v "/home/$USER/certbot/$HOST_NAME/root:/var/www/html" \
  certbot/certbot \
  certonly --webroot --email $EMAIL --agree-tos -d $HOST_NAME
# Webroot is /var/www/html

• Set file access to /home/$USER/certbot/conf to allow apache server access
  • get Apache server UID by attaching a shell to the apache docker docker exec -it <container name> /bin/bash
  • and running id normally 0
  • sudo chown -R <UID>:<UID> /home/$USER/certbot/conf
  • Stop all running containers. You can also cleanup the docker containers as they are no longer needed.
  • You can now run the apache docker contaner via docker compose or continue to steps below to run manually
  • Then re build docker-apache2
    • docker build --rm -t docker-apache2:latest .
    • docker run -p 443:443 -e HOST_NAME=$HOST_NAME -e PROXYCLIENTNAME=node_server -v "/home/$USER/certbot/conf:/etc/letsencrypt" docker-apache2