Docker port not being exposed - docker

Question

Using Windows and I have pulled the Jenkins image successfully via
docker pull jenkins
I am running a new container via following command and it seems to start the container fine. But when I try to access the Jenkins page on my browser, I just get following error message. I was expecting to see the Jenkins main log in page. Same issue when I tried other images like Redis, Couchbase and JBoss/Wildfly. What am I doing wrong? New to Docker and following tutorials which has described the following command to expose ports. Same for some answers given here + docs. Please advice. Thanks.
docker run -tid -p 127.0.0.1:8097:8097 --name jen1 --rm jenkins
In browser, just getting a normal 'Problem Loading page Error'.
The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy.

Answer 1

First, it looks a little bit strange use -tid. Since you're trying to run it detached, maybe, it'd be better just -d, and use -ti for example to access via shell docker exec -ti jen1 bash.
Second, docker localhost is not the same than host localhost, so, I'd run the container directly without 127.0.0.1. If you want to use it, you may specify --net=host, what makes 127.0.0.1 is the same inside and outside docker.
Third, try to access first through port 8080 for initial admin password.
Definitively, in summary:
docker run -d -p 8097:8080 --name jen1 --rm jenkins
Then,
http://172.17.0.2:8080/
Finally, unlock Jenkins setting admin password. You can have a look at starting logs: docker logs jen1

Answer 2

Take a look at Jenkins Dockerfile from here:
FROM openjdk:8-jdk
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y git curl && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
ARG user=jenkins
ARG group=jenkins
ARG uid=1000
ARG gid=1000
ARG http_port=8080
ARG agent_port=50000
.....
.....
# for main web interface:
EXPOSE ${http_port}
# will be used by attached slave agents:
EXPOSE ${agent_port}
As you can see port 8080 is being exposed and not 8097.
Change your command to
docker run -tid -p 8097:8080 --name jen1 --rm jenkins

Answer 3

What your command does is connects your host port 8097 with jenkins image port 8097, but how do you know that the image exposes/uses port 8097 (spoiler: it doesn't).
This image uses port 8080, so you want to port your local 8097 to port that one.
Change the command to this:
docker run -tid -p 127.0.0.1:8097:8080 --name jen1 --rm jenkins
Just tested your command with this small fix, and it works locally for me.