Nginx Image for Azure App Service Linux

Nginx Image for serving Static HTML Apps or Single Page Applications(React,Angular) using Azure App Service Linux

Benefits:

Image Size < 70MB
Easy to Use/Understand/Configure
SSH access to App Container

You can control nginx configuration used in app container by creating nginx.conf file @ /home/site folder

Ex: default root folder is set to /home/site/wwwroot. You can change it to /home/site/wwwroot/build by creating nginx.conf file @ /home/site with below content.

worker_processes auto;
pid          /var/run/nginx.pid;
daemon off;

events {
  worker_connections 1024;
}

http {
    include       /etc/nginx/mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;
    log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
                    '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                    '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
    access_log off;
    tcp_nopush     on;
    keepalive_timeout  65;
    gzip  on;

    server {
        listen 80;
        server_name  www.example.com;
        error_log  /home/LogFiles/error.log warn;
        root   /home/site/wwwroot/build;
        index  Default.htm Default.html index.html index.htm hostingstart.html;

        # Make site accessible from http://localhost/
        server_name _;
        sendfile on;

        location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico|mp3|html)$ {
            expires 1d;
        }

    }
}

lepskiy/azure-appservice-nginx

Nginx Image for Azure App Service Linux

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