NGINX: single page application static website (nginx docker)

./nginx.conf

user nginx;
worker_processes auto;


error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log notice;
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;


server {
listen 80;


root /usr/share/nginx/html;
index index.html;


location / {
# First attempt to serve request as file, then
# as directory, then fall back to redirecting to index.html
try_files $uri $uri/ $uri.html /index.html;
}
}
}

where all but ’try_files’ line is boilerplate

run command:

docker run -d -p 8000:80 -v ${PWD}:/usr/share/nginx/html -v ${PWD}/nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:ro --name my-static-website nginx

(src: https://hub.docker.com/_/nginx/ & NGINX config for Single Page Applications)

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(with direnv + alias) ./.envrc

export_alias start-server 'docker run -d -p 8000:80 -v ${PWD}:/usr/share/nginx/html -v ${PWD}/nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:ro --name my-static-website nginx'
export_alias stop-server 'docker stop my-static-website'