Lbdevaa/web-research

Simple docker setup for hosting static websites using Nginx

To run a static HTML & CSS website, put your website files inside of the site directory. If you put the files (especially the index file) in a different location, ensure you change the root of your website in the Nginx conf file (/nginx/my.conf) section below.

 #/nginx/my.conf
root /site/static;

In your dockerfile, you could add your static website from a repository, you dont have to put them in the site folder.

Bring the container up by:

docker compose up -d --build

or

docker-compose up -d --build

Note

If you change the docker port (in the compose file docker-compose.yaml ). You must also change the Nginx listening port on this line:

  #/nginx/my.conf
  listen 5000;

If you make any changes, bring the container down then up again:

docker compose down
docker-compose up -d --build