This container runs a nginx:stable-apline image with a reverse proxy to a Plone or Varnish container.

• Handles robots.txt for all extra domains to block crawlers.
• Redirect www.domain.com to domain.com
• Redirect attempts to login to the cms. environment.
• Rewrites the URL to VirtualHostMonster format.
• Reverse proxies requests to http://BACKEND:BACKEND_PORT/VirtualHostbase...

This container expects that a named Plone instance is already running.

This will download and start the latest nginx-proxy container, based on Alpine.

$ docker run -p 80:80 -e DOMAIN_NAME=mydomain.com \
                      -e BACKEND=plone-container-name \
                      -e BACKEND_PORT="8080" \
                      docker1.zestsoftware.nl/zestadmin/zest-nginx

This image includes EXPOSE 80 (the default HTTP port). When DNS is setup to point DOMAIN_NAME to the docker machine IP, you can view your Plone Site at http://DOMAIN_NAME:80

In Rancher you can define a stack with a Plone service and then trust on service name resolution by using the service name in the BACKEND variable. e.g. with a service named plone-instance, define a environment variable BACKEND=plone-instance.

For basic hosting use can run this image as is. More advanced setups require building your own image to extend this one.

If you need SSL or a more advanced nginx configuration, like a list of redirects, you should build your own image.

In this image we setup some server defaults for proxying, request size, security headers, etc which are found in defaults.conf

Our server config is stored in nginx.conf and replaces the /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf of the official nginx image.

The configuration based on environment variables is done in the entrypoint. In docker-entrypoint.sh you note a simple sed of all variables.

To support dynamic configuration by Rancher or other orchestration tool when creating new containers you should preserve the BACKEND variable.

• Create a Dockerfile:

  COPY nginx.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
  COPY redirects.conf /etc/nginx/redirects.conf
  

• Create your custom redirects.conf and nginx.conf by copying them from this image.

• Build your own image:

  docker build -t zest-nginx-DOMAIN_NAME .

Now you can run your own image or push it to a registry.

• SSL configuration