Configuring Nginx with Traefik - docker

Question

I'm new to Linux in general, and even newer to Traefik, and have been trying for some time to setup a nginx container to serve some AngularJS web pages, using Traefik as reverse-proxy. I have a small Ubuntu 20.4 server hosted on DigitalOcean (if that's of any relevance).
I have tried following a few different nginx tutorials, and messing with the settings on my own, to no success. It works if I run a simple command like:
$ docker run –name some-nginx -d -p 8888:80 nginx
But then I can only access it through myip:8888, and I would like to access it with a subdomain, i.e. docs.domain.com.
I managed to setup Traefik using a traefik.yml like that:
api:
dashboard: true
entryPoints:
http:
address: ":80"
https:
address: ":443"
providers:
docker:
endpoint: "unix:///var/run/docker.sock"
exposedByDefault: false
certificatesResolvers:
http:
acme:
email: email#email.com
storage: acme.json
httpChallenge:
entryPoint: http
And then docker-compose this file:
version: '3'
services:
traefik:
image: traefik:v2.0
container_name: traefik
restart: unless-stopped
security_opt:
- no-new-privileges:true
networks:
- proxy
ports:
- 80:80
- 443:443
volumes:
- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
- /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro
- ./traefik.yml:/traefik.yml:ro
- ./acme.json:/acme.json
labels:
- "traefik.enable=true"
- "traefik.http.routers.traefik.entrypoints=http"
- "traefik.http.routers.traefik.rule=Host(`monitor.domain.com`)"
- "traefik.http.middlewares.traefik-auth.basicauth.users=admin:secret_password"
- "traefik.http.middlewares.traefik-https-redirect.redirectscheme.scheme=https"
- "traefik.http.routers.traefik.middlewares=traefik-https-redirect"
- "traefik.http.routers.traefik-secure.entrypoints=https"
- "traefik.http.routers.traefik-secure.rule=Host(`monitor.domain.com`)"
- "traefik.http.routers.traefik-secure.middlewares=traefik-auth"
- "traefik.http.routers.traefik-secure.tls=true"
- "traefik.http.routers.traefik-secure.tls.certresolver=http"
- "traefik.http.routers.traefik-secure.service=api#internal"
networks:
proxy:
external: true
I also successfully set up a portainer:
version: '3'
services:
portainer:
image: portainer/portainer:latest
container_name: portainer
restart: unless-stopped
security_opt:
- no-new-privileges:true
networks:
- proxy
volumes:
- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
- /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro
- ./data:/data
labels:
- "traefik.enable=true"
- "traefik.http.routers.portainer.entrypoints=http"
- "traefik.http.routers.portainer.rule=Host(`manage.domain.com`)"
- "traefik.http.middlewares.portainer-https-redirect.redirectscheme.scheme=https"
- "traefik.http.routers.portainer.middlewares=portainer-https-redirect"
- "traefik.http.routers.portainer-secure.entrypoints=https"
- "traefik.http.routers.portainer-secure.rule=Host(`manage.domain.com`)"
- "traefik.http.routers.portainer-secure.tls=true"
- "traefik.http.routers.portainer-secure.tls.certresolver=http"
- "traefik.http.routers.portainer-secure.service=portainer"
- "traefik.http.services.portainer.loadbalancer.server.port=9000"
- "traefik.docker.network=proxy"
networks:
proxy:
external: true
This way I can access both portainer and traefik subdomains, with SSL, no problems.
I tried using docker-compose files for nginx similar to the portainer one, using the volumes "./data:/usr/share/nginx/html:ro" and "./nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:ro", as well some different nginx.conf options as exemplified in the Beginner's Guide from the official docs.
I would appreciate if someone could point ou which labels I should use on the docker-compose file and how to properly interface Traefik with the nginx config.