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user8514739
user8514739

Reputation:

404 while trying to make dockerized nginx serve static files mounted in a volume

I'm struggling to setup nginx inside a docker container. I basically have two containers:

I want to use the domain dynamic.localhost to serve my dynamic website, and static.localhost to serve my static website only made up of static files.

I have the following Dockerfile for my nginx container:

########## BASE #########

FROM nginx:stable

########## CONFIGURATION ##########

ARG DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive

ENV user www-data

COPY ./nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
COPY ./site.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf

RUN touch /var/run/nginx.pid && \
    chown -R ${user}:${user} /var/run/nginx.pid && \
    chown -R www-data:www-data /var/cache/nginx

RUN chown -R ${user} /home/${user}/ && \
    chgrp -R ${user} /home/${user}/

USER ${user}

As you see I'm using two configuration files for nginx: nginx.conf and site.conf. Here is nginx.conf (it's not important because there is nothing special in it but if I'm doing something wrong just let me know):

worker_processes auto;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log debug;
pid       /var/run/nginx.pid;

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 /var/log/nginx/access.log main;
    sendfile on;
    keepalive_timeout 65;
    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
}

And here is the file site.conf that I have been failing miserably at writing correctly for days now:

server {
    listen 8080;
    server_name static.localhost;
    root /home/www-data/static-content;

    location / {
        try_files $uri =404;
    }
}

server {
    listen 8080;
    server_name dynamic.localhost;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://dynamic;
        proxy_redirect off;
        proxy_set_header Host $host:8080;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Port 8080;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host:8080;
    }
}

(http://dynamic passes the request to the apache container that I name "dynamic").

So basically I keep getting 404 for whatever file I try to access in my static-content directory. E.g.:

I tried various things, like writing try_files /home/www-data/static-content/$uri, but I didn't get any result. I read some parts of nginx documentation and searched on Stack Overflow but nothing that I found helped me. If I made a stupid mistake I apologize, but the only thing that I care about now is to get this to work, and to understand what I'm doing wrong.

Thanks

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2492

Answers (2)

teliaz
teliaz

Reputation: 97

I had a same issue and I had to change permissions to mounted volume files for user group.

On dockerfile RUN useradd -G root,www-data -u 1000 ${user}

and changed permissions on host files chmod 775 /home/www-data/static-content -R

Upvotes: 1

user8514739
user8514739

Reputation:

I solved my problems by simply not using a volume for the static files but copying them in the container. I suspect it's a problem of permissions with the way the volume is mounted by docker-compose and the nginx process running as non-root. It's not a perfect solution since I have to give up on using a volume but it'll do.

Upvotes: 1

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