How to bind multiple domains (ports 80 and 443) to docker contained applications

The most basic way to expose a web app running in a Docker container to the outside is to bind port 80 in the container to port 80 on the host system:

docker run -d -p 80:80 coreos/apache /usr/sbin/apache2ctl -D FOREGROUND

Though when you are running multiple app that you can’t have them all listen on the same port. One way to get around this would be to set up an Nginx reverse proxy in front of the containers.

For example, say you have two different app. Bind them to a random port on the local host:

docker run -d -p 127.0.0.1:3000:80 coreos/apache /usr/sbin/apache2ctl -D FOREGROUND
docker run -d -p 127.0.0.1:5000:80 coreos/apache /usr/sbin/apache2ctl -D FOREGROUND

Then you can configure an Nginx sconfiguration that looks something like this:

upstream app-a {
    server 127.0.0.1:3000;
}

upstream app-b {
    server 127.0.0.1:5000;
}

server {
        listen 80;
        server_name test.com www.test.com;

        location / {
            proxy_pass         http://app-a;
            proxy_redirect     off;
            proxy_set_header   Host $host;
            proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
            proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
            proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-Host $server_name;

        }
}

server {
        listen 80;
        server_name example.com www.example.com;

        location / {
            proxy_pass         http://app-b;
            proxy_redirect     off;
            proxy_set_header   Host $host;
            proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
            proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
            proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-Host $server_name;

        }
}

This would direct all requests to test.com to the web app running in the first Docker container and all requests to example.com to the second Docker container.

This should help you out http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28519441/point-different-domains-to-different-docker-containers-on-a-single-ec2-instance

Hi,

I follow your guideline but failed to reach my website by name ! My first website: app-a can be reach by ip at http://104.131.164.193:8001 My 2nd website: app-b can be reach by ip at http://104.131.164.193:8002

I config my default.conf as following:

upstream app-a { server 104.131.164.193:8001; }

upstream app-b { server 104.131.164.193:8002; }

server { listen 80; server_name smartconsulting.asia www.smartconsulting.asia;

    location / {
        proxy_pass         http://app-a;
        proxy_redirect     off;
        proxy_set_header   Host $host;
        proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-Host $server_name;

    }

}

server { listen 80; server_name adalidda.net www.adalidda.net;

    location / {
        proxy_pass         http://app-b;
        proxy_redirect     off;
        proxy_set_header   Host $host;
        proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-Host $server_name;

    }

}

then I run the following command to start my nginx server: docker run -d --name nginx-proxy -v $(pwd)/default.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf:ro -p 80:80 nginx

I did pointed my GoDaddy config to DigitalOcean DNS but still can’t access my website by name. What is wrong in the above ?

Thank You Kosona