Introduction to NGINX Understand and Deploy Layer 4/Layer 7 Load Balancing, WebSockets, HTTPS, HTTP/2, TLS 1.3 with NGINX (With Docker)
- NGINX as a Web Server
create a directory/folder for your nginx implementation:
mkdir nginx-container
cd nginx-container
the following example will spin up nginx on the default port commonly used for http (both the specified port and --name ng1 are optional)_
docker run --name ng1 -p 80:80 -d nginx
view in CLI or browser:
curl http://localhost:80- or
search
localhost/in your browser
(you should see the nginx welcome page)
stop the running demo container:
docker stop ng1
delete the demo container:
docker rm ng1
create a directory/folder for your html file:
mkdir html
cd html
vim index.html /editor of your choice
add your index page e.g:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
</head>
<body>
<h1> Hello Mars <h1>
</body>
</html>
setup new container:
(important:
make sure to replace this next section: /home/desk/Desktop/nginx-container/html: with your own directory path to the new html folder)
docker run --name ng1 -p 80:80 -v /home/desk/Desktop/nginx-container/html:/usr/share/nginx/html -d nginx
test the new html directory content/page is being served instead of the default nginx welcome page:
curl http://localhost:80
- or
search
localhost/in your browser
The next part of this course: https://www.udemy.com/course/nginx-crash-course/ demonstrates how to override the default configuration of nginx setting it up as a reverse proxy which will point to 3 new instances of your continerised app, nginx will be configured to balance the load between them