How to install Nginx in Docker

Install Nginx on Docker

Nginx is a high-performance HTTP and reverse proxy web server that also provides IMAP/POP3/SMTP services.

1. View available Nginx versions

Visit the Nginx image library address: https://hub.docker.com/_/nginx?tab=tags.

You can view other versions of Nginx by Sort by. The default is the latest version nginx:latest.

You can also find other versions you want in the drop-down list:

In addition, we can also use the docker search nginx command to view the available versions:

$ docker search nginx
NAME DESCRIPTION STARS OFFICIAL AUTOMATED
nginx Official build of Nginx. 3260 [OK]    
jwilder/nginx-proxy Automated Nginx reverse proxy for docker c... 674 [OK]
richarvey/nginx-php-fpm Container running Nginx + PHP-FPM capable ... 207 [OK]
million12/nginx-php Nginx + PHP-FPM 5.5, 5.6, 7.0 (NG), CentOS... 67 [OK]
maxexcloo/nginx-php Docker framework container with Nginx and ... 57 [OK]
...

2. Get the latest version of Nginx image

Here we pull the latest official version of the image:

$ docker pull nginx:latest 

3. View local image

Use the following command to check whether nginx is installed:

$ docker images 

In the above picture, you can see that we have installed the latest version of nginx image.

4. Run the container

After the installation is complete, we can run the nginx container with the following command:

$ docker run --name nginx-test -p 8080:80 -d nginx

Parameter Description:

--name nginx-test: container name.
-p 8080:80: Map the local port 8080 to port 80 inside the container.
-d nginx: Set the container to run in the background all the time.

5. Installation successful

Finally, we can directly access the nginx service on port 8080 through the browser:

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