srepollock / docker-reverse-proxy

A Docker reverse proxy setup. This is a simple template to build out into larger examples. Check the README for use cases and more.

Docker Reverse Proxy

A Docker reverse proxy setup. This is a simple template to build out into larger examples.

Setup

Prerequisits

• docker
• git
• curl

Steps

1. Clone the repo
2. Run docker-compose up -d
3. Check that it's working with either: `curl docker

The meat of the project is in docker-compose.yml. This creates the nginx-proxy from jwilder's image, that will automatically build the service and the nginx config to use based on the rest of the containers. The next two services are the web applications. The first is an nginx instance, the second is an apache instance. This is just to display that the project is working. If you're running on a local machine, check it out by going to the respective domains (VIRTUAL_HOST's in the docker-compose).

If you're having issues connecting, check out the Notes for some troubleshooting and other notes on the project.

Notes

• To get this working on remote machines (as I was running an AWS EC2 instance for Docker testing) you have to be sure to set in the hosts file the web addresses. /etc/hosts

   172.0.0.1 a-site.domain.com
   172.0.0.1 b-site.domain.com
  

  Change 172.0.0.1 to your host (ex: EC2 machine) machines local IP address. This routes the site to localhost with the correct domain in the url to be updated by the local Nginx DNS.

Built with

• jwilder reverse proxy
• docker

Authors

• Spencer Pollock

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see LICENSE file for details

Resources

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