I tried to make my Django/Vue app work, but I can’t.
Here’s the steps: I followed the tutorials to install docker, docker-compose.
If I check ufw rules, it shows it allows traffic on port 80, the exct port I need.
But if I am inside the droplet, do curl localhost, I get: curl: (7) Failed to connect to localhost port 80: Connection refused
I run docker compse up
I go to the browser, go to my http://my-droplets-ip, I get “This site can’t be reached”
I try to run the kinematic hello world example, from docker hub, it works :-)
Obviously, I am a newbie in Docker and first time on DO, but I really want to understand this stuff better.
AT this point I am not sure the problem is with my docker-compose file or the firewall. (I doubt it’s the firewall since the kinematic example ran just fine)
Here’s my docker-compose file:
version: '3.3'
volumes:
postgres_data: {}
services:
backend:
build:
context: ./backend
depends_on:
- postgres
volumes:
- ./backend:/app
command: /start.sh
entrypoint: /entrypoint.sh
restart: on-failure
env_file: .env
frontend:
image: node:10-alpine
command: npm run serve
volumes:
- ./.env:/app/.env:ro
- ./frontend:/app
working_dir: /app
restart: on-failure
postgres:
image: postgres:10-alpine
volumes:
- postgres_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
env_file: .env
nginx:
image: nginx:alpine
ports:
- "80:80"
depends_on:
- backend
volumes:
- ./backend/media/:/media/
- ./backend/staticfiles/:/staticfiles/
- ./nginx/dev.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:ro
logging:
driver: none
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This question was answered by @ioio:
Sorry, it works :-) It’s on the 8000 port…
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