linuxserver/nginx

The https://linuxserver.io team brings you another container release featuring:

• regular and timely application updates
• easy user mappings (PGID, PUID)
• custom base image with s6 overlay
• weekly base OS updates with common layers across the entire LinuxServer.io ecosystem to minimise space usage, down time and bandwidth
• regular security updates

Find us at:

• https://blog.linuxserver.io - all the things you can do with our containers including How-To guides, opinions and much more!
• https://linuxserver.io/*** - realtime support / chat with the community and the team.
• https://discourse.linuxserver.io - post on our community forum.
• https://github.com/linuxserver - view the source for all of our repositories.
• https://opencollective.com/linuxserver - please *** helping us by either donating or contributing to our budget

https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-nginx

https://nginx.org/ is an HTTP web server, reverse proxy, content cache, load ***, TCP/UDP proxy server, and mail proxy server.

Supported Architectures

We utilise the docker manifest for multi-platform awareness. More information is available from docker https://distribution.github.io/distribution/spec/manifest-v2-2/#manifest-list and our announcement https://blog.linuxserver.io/2019/02/21/the-lsio-pipeline-project/.

Simply pulling lscr.io/linuxserver/nginx:latest should retrieve the correct image for your arch, but you can also pull specific arch images via tags.

The architectures supported by this image are:

Application Setup

Add your web files to /config/www for hosting. Modify the nginx, php and site config files under /config as needed

Read-Only Operation

This image can be run with a read-only container filesystem. For details please https://docs.linuxserver.io/misc/read-only/.

Caveats

• /tmp must be mounted to tmpfs

Usage

To help you get started creating a container from this image you can either use docker-compose or the docker cli.

[!NOTE] Unless a parameter is flagged as 'optional', it is mandatory and a value must be provided.

docker-compose (recommended, https://docs.linuxserver.io/general/docker-compose)

yaml
---
services:
  nginx:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/nginx:latest
    container_name: nginx
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Etc/UTC
      - NGINX_AUTORELOAD= #optional
      - NGINX_AUTORELOAD_WATCHLIST= #optional
    volumes:
      - /path/to/nginx/config:/config
    ports:
      - 80:80
      - 443:443
    restart: unless-stopped

docker cli (https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/cli/)

bash
docker run -d \
  --name=nginx \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=Etc/UTC \
  -e NGINX_AUTORELOAD= `#optional` \
  -e NGINX_AUTORELOAD_WATCHLIST= `#optional` \
  -p 80:80 \
  -p 443:443 \
  -v /path/to/nginx/config:/config \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  lscr.io/linuxserver/nginx:latest

Parameters

Containers are configured using parameters passed at runtime (such as those above). These parameters are separated by a colon and indicate <external>:<internal> respectively. For example, -p 8080:80 would expose port 80 from inside the container to be accessible from the host's IP on port 8080 outside the container.

Environment variables from files (Docker secrets)

You can set any environment variable from a file by using a special prepend FILE__.

As an example:

bash
-e FILE__MYVAR=/run/secrets/mysecretvariable

Will set the environment variable MYVAR based on the contents of the /run/secrets/mysecretvariable file.

Umask for running applications

For all of our images we provide the ability to override the default umask settings for services started within the containers using the optional -e UMASK=022 setting. Keep in mind umask is not chmod it subtracts from permissions based on it's value it does not add. Please read up here before asking for support.

User / Group Identifiers

When using volumes (-v flags), permissions issues can arise between the host OS and the container, we avoid this issue by allowing you to specify the user PUID and group PGID.

Ensure any volume directories on the host are owned by the same user you specify and any permissions issues will vanish like magic.

In this instance PUID=1000 and PGID=1000, to find yours use id your_user as below:

bash
id your_user

Example output:

text
uid=1000(your_user) gid=1000(your_user) groups=1000(your_user)

Docker Mods

We publish various https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-mods to enable additional functionality within the containers. The list of Mods available for this image (if any) as well as universal mods that can be applied to any one of our images can be accessed via the dynamic badges above.

Support Info

• Shell access whilst the container is running:

  bash
  docker exec -it nginx /bin/bash
  

• To monitor the logs of the container in realtime:

  bash
  docker logs -f nginx
  

• Container version number:

  bash
  docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' nginx
  

• Image version number:

  bash
  docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' lscr.io/linuxserver/nginx:latest
  

Updating Info

Most of our images are static, versioned, and require an image update and container recreation to update the app inside. With some exceptions (noted in the relevant readme.md), we do not recommend or support updating apps inside the container. Please consult the Application Setup section above to see if it is recommended for the image.

Below are the instructions for updating containers:

Via Docker Compose

• Update images:

  • All images:

    bash
    docker-compose pull
    

  • Single image:

    bash
    docker-compose pull nginx
    

• Update containers:

  • All containers:

    bash
    docker-compose up -d
    

  • Single container:

    bash
    docker-compose up -d nginx
    

• You can also remove the old dangling images:

  bash
  docker image prune
  

Via Docker Run

• Update the image:

  bash
  docker pull lscr.io/linuxserver/nginx:latest
  

• Stop the running container:

  bash
  docker stop nginx
  

• Delete the container:

  bash
  docker rm nginx
  

• Recreate a new container with the same docker run parameters as instructed above (if mapped correctly to a host folder, your /config folder and settings will be preserved)

• You can also remove the old dangling images:

  bash
  docker image prune
  

Image Update Notifications - Diun (Docker Image Update Notifier)

[!TIP] We recommend https://crazymax.dev/diun/ for update notifications. Other tools that automatically update containers unattended are not recommended or supported.

Building locally

If you want to make local modifications to these images for development purposes or just to customize the logic:

bash
git clone https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-nginx.git
cd docker-nginx
docker build \
  --no-cache \
  --pull \
  -t lscr.io/linuxserver/nginx:latest .

The ARM variants can be built on x86_64 hardware and vice versa using lscr.io/linuxserver/qemu-static

bash
docker run --rm --privileged lscr.io/linuxserver/qemu-static --reset

Once registered you can define the dockerfile to use with -f Dockerfile.aarch64.

Versions

• 05.07.26: - Rebase to Alpine 3.24 with PHP 8.5.
• 13.07.25: - Fixed auto-reload functionality.
• 16.06.25: - Rebase to Alpine 3.22 with PHP 8.4. Add https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-mods/tree/swag-auto-reload functionality. Drop PHP bindings for mcrypt as it is no longer maintained.
• 17.12.24: - Rebase to Alpine 3.21.
• 31.05.24: - Rebase to Alpine 3.20. Existing users should update their nginx confs to avoid http2 deprecation warnings.
• 05.03.24: - Rebase to Alpine 3.19 with php 8.3.
• 25.05.23: - Rebase to Alpine 3.18, deprecate armhf.
• 16.01.23: - Remove nchan module because it keeps causing crashes.
• 22.12.22: - Rebase to Alpine 3.17 with PHP 8.1, migrate to s6v3.
• 20.08.22: - Rebasing to alpine 3.15 with php8. Restructure nginx configs (https://info.linuxserver.io/issues/2022-08-20-nginx-base).
• 22.05.22: - Install nginx version from 3.14.
• 01.07.21: - Rebasing to alpine 3.14.
• 24.06.21: - Update default nginx conf folder.
• 12.04.21: - Add php7-gmp and php7-pecl-mailparse.
• 13.02.21: - Remove php7-pecl-imagick (it now installs the full imagemagick with too much crud). Users can install it via https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-mods/tree/swag-imagemagick.
• 09.02.21: - Rebasing to alpine 3.13. Add nginx mods brotli and dav-ext. Remove nginx mods lua and lua-upstream (due to regression over the last couple of years).
• 08.09.20: - Add php7-xsl.
• 01.06.20: - Rebasing to alpine 3.12.
• 18.04.20: - Fix unwanted shutdown of the container.
• 11.03.20: - Add php7-sodium.
• 18.02.20: - Add geoip2, suppress lua warning.
• 19.12.19: - Rebasing to alpine 3.11.
• 18.12.19: - Add php7-imap and php7-pecl-apcu.
• 13.11.19: - Add php7-pdo_odbc.
• 24.10.19: - Add php7-pecl-imagick.
• 06.08.19: - Add php7-bcmath, ph7-pear, php7-xmlrpc and php7-ftp.
• 02.08.19: - Add php7-ldap.
• 28.06.19: - Rebasing to alpine 3.10.
• 08.05.19: - Remove default.conf when nginx is upgraded in downstream image.
• 30.04.19: - Add php-redis.
• 23.03.19: - Switching to new Base images, shift to arm32v7 tag.
• 02.03.19: - Add php intl and posix modules.
• 28.02.19: - Add php7-opcache, remove memcached service due to issues on aarch64 (let us know if you need to enable it).
• 22.02.19: - Rebasing to alpine 3.9.
• 18.11.18: - Attempt to upgrade packages during build.
• 28.09.18: - Multi-arch image.
• 17.08.18: - Rebase to alpine 3.8, inherit nginx.conf from nginx baseimage.
• 11.05.18: - Add php pgsql support.
• 19.04.18: - Bind memcached to localhost only, add php7-sqlite3.
• 05.01.18: - Rebase to alpine 3.7.
• 08.11.17: - Add php7 soap module.
• 31.10.17: - Add php7 exif and xmlreader modules.
• 30.09.17: - Copy additional root files into image.
• 24.09.17: - Add memcached service.
• 31.08.17: - Add php7-phar.
• 14.07.17: - Enable modules dynamically in nginx.conf.
• 22.06.17: - Add various nginx modules and enable all modules in the default nginx.conf.
• 05.06.17: - Add php7-bz2.
• 25.05.17: - Rebase to alpine 3.6.
• 18.04.17: - Add php7-sockets.
• 27.02.17: - Rebase to alpine 3.5, update to nginx 1.10.2 and php7.
• 14.10.16: - Add version layer information.
• 10.09.16: - Add badges to README.
• 05.12.15: - Intial Release.