NGINX docker container immediately stops

Question

I'm started to get to know Docker and nginx in docker. I want to use my own custom static files, and my own nginx.conf, so i've created a docker file:

FROM nginx RUN rm /etc/nginx/nginx.conf COPY /nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf COPY / /usr/share/nginx/html # Expose ports EXPOSE 80 

And my nginx.conf:

#user nobody; worker_processes auto; #error_log logs/error.log; #error_log logs/error.log notice; #error_log logs/error.log info; #pid logs/nginx.pid; events { worker_connections 1024; } http { include 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"' '$server_name to: $upstream_addr: $request'; access_log logs/access.log main; sendfile on; #tcp_nopush on; #keepalive_timeout 0; keepalive_timeout 65; #gzip on; server { listen 8080; server_name 127.0.0.1; #charset koi8-r; #access_log logs/host.access.log main; location / { root /usr/share/nginx/html; index index.html index.htm; try_files $uri /index.html; include mime.types; } error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html; location = /50x.html { root html; } } } 

I'm building this with:

docker build --no-cache -t nginx-custom . 

And running it with:

docker run -d -p 8080:80 --name webserver nginx-custom 

But it builds, and then runs, but stopps immediately so if i check with

docker ps -a 

I can see it's exited 1 second ago. I tried to use CMD /usr/sbin/nginx -g "daemon off;" or deamon off; in the nginx conf, or use CMD ["nginx", "-g", "daemon off;"] no matter what i do, it's just exits right after run.

Answer 1

You have to define the correct path for your nginx logs.

/var/log/nginx/error.log and /var/log/nginx/access.log

Answer 2

Try running it with the below command:-

docker run -d -p 8080:80 --name webserver -it nginx-custom /bin/bash