I’m trying to set up a basic nginx reverse proxy following a tutorial from this site:
There the author writes the following: “It is VERY important that your config folder does NOT exist on your host first time you’re starting the container.”
This is the docker-compose.yml I’m using:
version: '3'
services:
reverseproxy:
container_name: reverse
hostname: reverse
image: nginx:1.15.12-alpine
ports:
- 80:80
- 443:443
volumes:
- /binds/nginx/:/etc/nginx
- /binds/ssl:/etc/ssl/private
Instead of seeing the normal configuration files from the container, I get the following error:
reverse | 2019/05/10 11:33:44 [emerg] 1#1: open() "/etc/nginx/nginx.conf" failed (2: No such file or directory)
reverse | nginx: [emerg] open() "/etc/nginx/nginx.conf" failed (2: No such file or directory)
So of course it’s trying to mount whatever there exists in /binds/nginx and /binds/ssl. But there is nothing there, and docker-compose itself actually creates directories. Should this normally work? Normally I’d have expected it to work the other way around, i.e. already having files on the hosts that I’d mount into the container and that the container would use.