How to serve a Static website?

Traefik Traefik v2
1

Hi, I'm just a noob learning treafik 2 the hard way.
Following this tutorials:
simple setup
Advanced guide

I was able to setup traefik 2 and portainer.
My next step would be to serve a simple page (files are on /var/www/) using NGINX I did try to create a docker-compose.yml to serve my webiste but I have 403 error. Can you point me in the right direction? tutorial page much appreciated

version: '3'

services:
  nginx:
    image: nginx:latest
    container_name: nginx_website
    restart: unless-stopped
    security_opt:
      - no-new-privileges:true
    networks:
      - proxy
    volumes:
      - /var/www:/data:rw
    labels:
      - "traefik.enable=true"
      - "traefik.http.routers.nginx.entrypoints=http"
      - "traefik.http.routers.nginx.rule=Host(`officinecartografiche.net`)"
      - "traefik.http.routers.nginx-secure.middlewares=secured@file,nc-header"
      - "traefik.http.routers.nginx-secure.entrypoints=https"
      - "traefik.http.routers.nginx-secure.rule=Host(`officinecartografiche.net`)"
      - "traefik.http.routers.nginx-secure.tls=true"
      - "traefik.http.routers.nginx-secure.tls.certresolver=http"
      - "traefik.http.routers.nginx-secure.service=traefik"
      - "traefik.http.services.pnginx.loadbalancer.server.port=80"
      - "traefik.docker.network=proxy"

networks:
  proxy:
    external: true
2

I suggest you tackle it separately. Firstly make sure that you can compose a nginx container that serves you your simple page directly, (e.g. without "traefik.enable=true") and then when it works try exposing it via traefik.

This way you will make sure to exclude problems due to misconfiguration on nginx.

3

Hi, thank you for your hint, I commented out all the traefik labels ... no luck

4

So this indicate that the problem is not with traefik. You need to solve this first.

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5

I have the impression that your volume is not well configure within Nginx. Here is a hint.

But yeah, it's not an issue traefik.
Cheers!

6

Hi, if i did set the volume to

    volumes:
      - /var/www:/srv:rw

I get to the nginx page indeed, but if I save a index.html test file in /var/www I can't serve it and I still see the nginx welcome page. Why?
I small step on the right direction but still along way to go

7

Try the whole demo from the link I shared above. It will do exactly what your are looking for :slight_smile:

8

Hi! Although I did run your demo on "Play with Docker" I am not able to run it on my Digital Ocean Ubuntu Docker Droplet is it because I'm not running swarm?
Moreover is there a graphic schema of the components you put together?

Thanks a lot for your help

9

It looks like your nginx volumes definition may be wrong. On the presumption that the files you want to serve from nginx are in /data outside the container, try changing it to:

- /data:/usr/share/nginx/html:ro

This also makes the files read-only to the nginx container which is a good precaution to take. If this troubles you change that 'ro' back to 'rw'.