README.en.md

Reverse proxy for Docker

Config Nginx-Proxy service

Verify all ports definitions you are going to use are in the docker-compose.yml.

ports:
      - "80:80"
      - "3306:3306"
      - "443:443"
      - "8080:8080"

Up/Down Nginx-Proxy docker compose

• Edit host machine /etc/hosts file adding all VIRTUAL_HOST defined in each service of your docker compose files.
  • An example: 0.0.0.0 www.blog.local
• Up Nginx-Proxy executing sh proxy-start.sh.
  • That script will create a docker network called nginx-proxy and build the nginx-proxy service.
• Down Nginx-Proxy with sh proxy-stop.sh.

Config projects to use nginx-proxy

All docker compose projects use nginx-proxy have to follow next steps:

• Add nginx-proxy env variables to each service:

environment:
    VIRTUAL_HOST: www.blog.local
    VIRUTAL_PORT: 80

• Add nginx-proxy network definition to each service:

networks:
    - nginx-proxy

• If you want to use aliases to internal communication between containers add this instead previous one:

networks:
    nginx-proxy:
        aliases:
            - www.blog.local

• Add nginx-proxy network definition to global configuration.

networks:
    nginx-proxy:
    external:
        name: nginx-proxy

• Verify your Apache virtual host use same URL you declared in VIRTUAL_HOST variable.

An example of an optimized docker-compose.yml for nginx-proxy use.

version: '3'

services:
    db:
        container_name: database
        image: mysql:5.6
        environment:
            MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: root
            VIRTUAL_HOST: db.blog.local
            VIRTUAL_PORT: 3306
        networks:
            nginx-proxy:
                aliases: db.blog.local
    wordpress:
        container_name: wordpress
        image: wordpress:latest
        environment:
            VIRTUAL_HOST: www.blog.local
            VIRUTAL_PORT: 80
        networks:
            - nginx-proxy
networks:
    nginx-proxy:
        external:
            name: nginx-proxy