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Nginx Docker's container : set default home page with a custom index.html

I work with docker container and i built one for nginx.

I would to change the nginx's home page with my index.html.

How can i tell to my nginx container where find my custom index.html and replace his own index.html by my index ?

Solution

  • You could simply put a COPY command or an ADD command in your Dockerfile, which would copy your index.html file over the one provided by NGiNX (defined by the root directive, like /data/www/index.html)

    COPY <src>... <dest>
ADD <src>... <dest>

    Here: 

    COPY /path/to/your/index.html /data/www/index.html
ADD /path/to/your/index.html /data/www/index.html

    Note, RUN or COPY are preferred to ADD:

    The first encountered ADD instruction will invalidate the cache for all following instructions from the Dockerfile if the contents of <src> have changed.
    This includes invalidating the cache for RUN instructions.

    That is why the suggestion made in the comments is better:

    if you have few changes

    RUN sed -i -e"s/aaa/bbb" /data/www/index.html

    If you have many changes, ADD is still a valid option (try COPY first), but try to put it at the end of the dockerfile, not at the beginning or in the middle.