nginx-proxy using docker compose
Docker compose file for launching nginx-proxy container
Custom nginx configuration
To add server-wide configuration, you can put the file to conf.d directory, any file with *.conf will be picked up by nginx.
To add site-wide configuration, you can put the file to vhost.d directory using filename matching exactly with VIRTUAL_HOST variable configured in backend container.
For more information, please check this guide https://github.com/nginx-proxy/nginx-proxy#custom-nginx-configuration, https://github.com/nginx-proxy/acme-companion#features
nginx-proxy network
The compose file is configured to create a bridge network with the name of nginx-proxy, in order to allow connectivity between nginx-proxy container and backend container. The backend container must be connected to nginx-proxy network
For example, docker-compose.yml
version: '3'
services:
whoami:
image: jwilder/whoami
expose:
- "8000"
networks:
- default # this allow connectivity within compose stack
- nginx-proxy # this allow connectivity with nginx-proxy
environment:
- VIRTUAL_HOST=whoami.local.com
- VIRTUAL_PORT=8000
- LETSENCRYPT_HOST=whoami.local.com # optional
- LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL=your@email.com # optional
# ask for nginx-proxy network
networks:
nginx-proxy:
external: true.env
do this before running docker-compose
cp .env.example .env
# update it your info
vim .env