Deploy static website on port 5000 with docker and nginx - docker

Question

I try to deploy a simple static index.html and style.css website with docker.
server {
#root /var/www/html;
# Add index.php to the list if you are using PHP
#index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
server_name data-mastery.com; # managed by Certbot
location /blog {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:5000;
}
listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/data-mastery.com/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/data-mastery.com/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot
}
server {
if ($host = data-mastery.com) {
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
} # managed by Certbot
listen 80 ;
listen [::]:80 ;
server_name data-mastery.com;
return 404; # managed by Certbot
}
This is my simple Dockerfile:
FROM nginx:alpine
COPY . /usr/share/nginx/html
I started the container with the following command:
sudo docker run -p 5000:5000 blog
I am not sure that this line means when I run docker ps:
80/tcp, 0.0.0.0:5000->5000/tcp
Is everything correct here or not?
How can I make it running on port 5000?
Thank you!

Answer 1

Updated answer:
Your use case is addressed in nginx docker image documentation, so I'll paraphrase it.
$ docker run --name my-blog -v /path/to/your/static/content/:/usr/share/nginx/html:ro -d nginx
Alternatively, a simple Dockerfile can be used to generate a new image that includes the necessary content (which is a much cleaner solution than the bind mount above):
FROM nginx
COPY . /usr/share/nginx/html
Place this file in the same directory as your directory of content , run docker build -t my-blog ., then start your container:
$ docker run --name my-blog -d my-blog
Exposing external port
$ docker run --name some-nginx -d -p 8080:80 some-content-nginx
Then you can hit http://localhost:8080 or http://host-ip:8080 in your browser.
Initial answer:
You should try something like:
sudo docker run -p 80:5000 blog
docker will proxy connection to localhost:5000 to your_container:80
on your_container:80 nginx is listening and will proxy to your_container:500 where your blog is answering
I hope that helps