Nginx Reverse Proxy To Docker Container Web Apps Giving 404 - docker

Question

I just made a fresh Ubuntu desktop vm, threw docker on it, threw Nginx on it, and pulled and ran the container yeasy/simple-web:latest, and ran it twice with the commands
docker run --rm -it -p 8000:80 yeasy/simple-web:latest
docker run --rm -it -p 8001:80 yeasy/simple-web:latest
I went over to /etc/nginx/sites-available and created a new file localhost.conf with the contents
server {
listen 80;
location /chad {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000/;
}
location /brock {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8081/;
}
}
I then created a symlink of the localhost.conf file at /etc/nginx/sites-enabled with the command
ln -s ../sites-available/localhost.conf .
This was all done as root.
When I curl localhost:8000 and localhost:8001 I get the correct webpage hosted in the docker container. When I curl localhost/chad or localhost/brock, I get an Nginx 404 error. I have not touched the default config for Nginx, and did not modify the Docker images
I am limited to using docker images and Nginx, so I cannot change technology stacks.

Answer 1

Not sure if you're already doing this but it's worth mentioning:
You need to reload or restart Nginx whenever you make changes to its configuration.
To reload Nginx, use one of the following commands:
sudo systemctl reload nginx
sudo service nginx reload

Answer 2

I ended up being able to host both my docker containers with Nginx on the host machine with the following config following the above instructions.
server {
root /var/www/html;
index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
listen 127.0.0.1;
server_name localhost;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}
location /chad {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000/;
}
location /brock {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8001/;
}
}