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Christian Angelo M Sulit
Christian Angelo M Sulit

Reputation: 47

docker -v binding local directory to /home/user folder

Hi I'm trying to bind nginx /usr/share/nginx/html directory to my linux home directory is this the right command to do it?

user@localhost ~: pwd
/home/user


sudo docker container run -d -p 8080:80 -v "$(pwd)":/usr/shares/nginx/html --name nginx-website nginx

But when I try to ls index.html is not showing.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1332

Answers (1)

norbjd
norbjd

Reputation: 11277

This is indeed the right command to mount your current directory (/home/user here) to /usr/shares/nginx/html. But be careful, you have probably made a mistake and wanted to use /usr/share/nginx/html (share folder instead of shares).

Anyway, assuming this mistake is fixed, and if you have a /home/user/index.html on your host, docker exec nginx ls index.html shows nothing because the working directory of nginx container is /. Therefore, since ls index.html is issued from /, and there is no /index.html, you don't see anything.

You have 2 solutions to see your index.html :

  • change working directory : docker exec -w /usr/share/nginx/html nginx ls index.html
  • access index.html via its absolute path : docker exec nginx ls /usr/share/nginx/html/index.html

Upvotes: 1

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