How fix nginx error "invalid number of arguments"? - docker

Question

i try redirect to proxy-server nginx.
location /phpmyadmin {
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_pass https://${PMA}:5000/;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
}
But i get error:
nginx: [emerg] invalid number of arguments in "proxy_set_header" directive in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:26
full code for inspect error in this listing, because i'm real can't find some error's (${env} = correctry changing in script
user root;
worker_processes auto;
pcre_jit on;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
keepalive_timeout 3000;
sendfile on;
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
server {
listen 443 ssl;
listen [::]:443 ssl;
ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/nginx.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/nginx.key;
root /home;
index default.html /default.html;
location /phpmyadmin {
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_pass https://${PMA}:5000/;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto https;
}
location /wordpress {
return 307 http://${WP}:5050/;
}
location / {
try_files /default.html default.html default.htm;
}
}
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}
}
daemon off;
how much simvols need for post)

Answer 1

I used envsubst for environment replacing, and this util tried swap $host and other nginx envs, solved with:
envsubst '\$WP \$PMA' < nginx.template.conf > nginx.ready.conf; rm nginx.template.conf

Answer 2

Expanding on the working answer from #mikhail-prigorodov:
The situation described by the OP arises when using the Nginx Docker container with Docker Compose. In the documentation, it reads:
Out-of-the-box, nginx doesn't support environment variables inside most configuration blocks. But this image has a function, which will extract environment variables before nginx starts.
So, if you are using environment variables in your docker-compose.yml as part of a 12-Factor App design, you have to figure out how to get them into your Nginx config file properly.
The solution in the Nginx Docker documentation is to run envsubst on a template configuration file and send the output to the Nginx config file. The Dockerfile syntax, which is mentioned in this GitHub issue is:
CMD envsubst < /etc/nginx/templates/default.conf.template > /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf && exec nginx -g 'daemon off;'
But that solution runs into a problem if you have Nginx-defined variables AND environment variable placeholders in your configuration template. In the directory where I'm building my Nginx container (where my Dockerfile is), I have a templates directory with a file called default.conf.template, as directed in the documentation. The file contains Nginx variables and environment variables. For example:
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
location /static {
alias /usr/share/nginx/html/${STATIC_DIR};
}
The problem (I think) is that envsubst is looking for the "$" character that marks the start of the environment variables. In any case, you'll find that after running envsubst successfully, each line in your new Nginx config file that has a Nginx-defined variable (leading "$") in the template gives an error when you try and start Nginx.
To solve this problem, use the syntax provided by #mikhail-prigorodov. Applied to my example:
CMD envsubst '\$STATIC_DIR' < /etc/nginx/templates/default.conf.template > /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf && exec nginx -g 'daemon off;'
This was the solution that worked for me after hours of frustration.