By dffiaNt
Hi guys,
As the question states I would like for when users browse to my domain name they see my nginx container. Currently I can view the container (default nginx) when I browse to my droplets ip but not through the domain name. I know my domain name is pointing to my droplet correctly since performing tracerts/pings result in a connection to my droplets ip.
My setup has been this:
- launch ubuntu droplet
- install docker
- pull nginx image and run it with -p 80:80
runing docker ps results in: a7d45cc55a85 nginx “nginx -g 'daemon of…” 8 minutes ago Up 8 minutes 0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp
This has resulted in the display of the ‘Welcome to nginx’ page when I browse to my server ip, but when I browse to my domain I get ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED, “This site can’t be reached”.
Any help would be much appreciated.
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So I actually figured it out eventually. I have a .dev domain, and what was happening is every time I would go to http://mydomain.dev it would always attempt to go to https://mydomain.dev so I solved the problem by adding an ssl certificate to my nginx config.
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