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Reverse Proxy

Nginx is an HTTP web server, reverse proxy, content cache, load balancer, TCP/UDP proxy server, and mail proxy server.

Image details

Pulls: 71.6M
Architecture: amd64, arm64
Image size: 54 MB
Latest: 1.30.4
User: linuxserver
Created: Oct 14, 2015
Updated: 3 days ago
Status: active

Configuration

Type
Container
Platform
linux
Image
linuxserver/nginx:latest
Ports
80:80/tcp443:443/tcp
Volumes
/config : /srv/lsio/nginx/config
Env vars
PUID=1000PGID=1000TZ=Etc/UTCNGINX_AUTORELOAD=NGINX_AUTORELOAD_WATCHLIST=
Restart
unless-stopped

Template by technorabilia

Notes

Portainer App Templates by Technorabilia, based on data provided by LinuxServer.io.

Ensure to create the following volume directories on the host file system, or modify the paths in the volume mapping section under the advanced options below, as needed.

mkdir -p /srv/lsio/nginx/config

Standalone Install

Select an install method, to see config/commands for deploying Nginx

Installation method

Install on Portainer

Import all app templates into your Portainer instance, for easy 1-click deploys

  1. Ensure both Docker and Portainer are installed, and up-to-date
  2. Log into your Portainer web UI
  3. Under Settings → App Templates, paste the below URL
  4. Head to Home → App Templates, and the list of apps will show up
  5. Select Nginx, fill in any config options, and hit Deploy

Template Import URL

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Lissy93/portainer-templates/main/templates.json
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More install options in our documentation.

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linuxserver/nginx

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Nginx is an HTTP web server, reverse proxy, content cache, load balancer, TCP/UDP proxy server, and mail proxy server.
nginx

Supported Architectures

We utilise the docker manifest for multi-platform awareness. More information is available from docker here and our announcement here.
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:
ArchitectureAvailableTag
x86-64✅amd64-\
arm64✅arm64v8-\

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 read the docs.

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, click here for more info)

---
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 (click here for more info)

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.
ParameterFunction
-p 80:80http
-p 443:443https
-e PUID=1000for UserID - see below for explanation
-e PGID=1000for GroupID - see below for explanation
-e TZ=Etc/UTCspecify a timezone to use, see this list.
-e NGINXAUTORELOAD=Set to true to enable automatic reloading of confs on change without stopping/restarting nginx. Your filesystem must support inotify. This functionality was previously offered via mod.
-e NGINXAUTORELOADWATCHLIST=A pipe-separated list of additional folders for auto reload to watch in addition to /config/nginx
-v /configPersistent config files
--read-only=trueRun container with a read-only filesystem. Please read the docs.

Environment variables from files (Docker secrets)

You can set any environment variable from a file by using a special prepend FILE__.
As an example:
-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:
id your_user

Example output:
uid=1000(your_user) gid=1000(your_user) groups=1000(your_user)

Docker Mods

Docker Mods Docker Universal Mods
We publish various 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 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:
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 x8664 hardware and vice versa using lscr.io/linuxserver/qemu-static
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 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 (see changes announcement).
  • 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 this docker mod.
  • 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-pdoodbc.
  • 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.

Serve Nginx on your own domain behind Caddy, Nginx or Traefik. Fill in your domain and copy the result. It's a starting point, some apps need their own base URL or extra headers set too.

Proxying nginx.example.com to http://Nginx:80

Add this to your Caddyfile

nginx.example.com {
	reverse_proxy http://Nginx:80
}

Check the logs first

Nine times out of ten the logs tell you exactly what went wrong.

  • In Portainer, go to Containers, click the container, then Logs. Or run docker logs Nginx
  • Exit codes help too: 137 means killed, usually out of memory. 126 or 127 means the command inside the image is broken.

Port already in use

If deployment fails with "Bind for 0.0.0.0:80 failed: port is already allocated", something else on your server is using that port.

  • Find what's using it: sudo ss -tlnp | grep :80
  • Stop the other service, or pick a different host port. In 80:80 only the left number is yours to change, the right one belongs to the app.

Running but the page won't load

The container is up but nothing appears in your browser.

  • Use your server's real IP: http://your-server-ip:80. The 0.0.0.0 link Portainer shows isn't a real address.
  • Give it a minute after first deploy, Nginx can take a while to initialise.
  • Make sure your firewall allows the port, e.g. sudo ufw allow 80

Permission denied on volumes

If the logs show "permission denied", the app can't write to its data folder on the host.

  • Fix the ownership: sudo chown -R 1000:1000 /srv/lsio/nginx/config
  • Or set the PUID and PGID variables (defaults 1000:1000) to match your own user, found with id $USER

Image won't pull

Test the pull directly on the host: docker pull linuxserver/nginx:latest

  • "manifest unknown" means the tag no longer exists. This template uses latest, so try pinning a specific version instead.
  • "toomanyrequests" is the Docker Hub rate limit. Log in with docker login to raise it.
  • "no space left on device" means a full disk. Reclaim space with docker system prune

"exec format error"

This means the image was built for a different CPU architecture than your server.

  • This image supports: amd64, arm64
  • Check yours with uname -m: x86_64 is amd64, aarch64 is arm64. Raspberry Pi and other ARM boards are the usual culprits.

Container keeps restarting

The unless-stopped restart policy relaunches the app after every crash, so the real error can scroll past.

  • Check the logs right after a restart, the last few lines before it died are the useful ones.
  • Get the exit code with docker inspect Nginx --format '{{.State.ExitCode}}'
  • Still stuck? Redeploy once with the restart policy set to no so the failure stays visible.

Required settings are blank

NGINX_AUTORELOAD, NGINX_AUTORELOAD_WATCHLIST have no default value, and Nginx may crash or misbehave if left empty.

  • Fill them in on the deploy screen before hitting deploy.

Raise an issue

Found something which isn't working as it should? Here's how to report it.

A single container

Nginx runs as one container, the simplest kind of app here. Just the one image to pull and nothing else wired up alongside it.

The app image

An image is the app packed up ready to go, everything Nginx needs bundled into one download. This template pulls linuxserver/nginx:latest, which Docker fetches once (about 54 MB) and then starts your own copy from.

Where the image comes from

Docker pulls its images from registries, public libraries of ready-built apps. Nginx's comes from Docker Hub, published by linuxserver.

Version tags

The bit after the colon in the image name is the version tag. Here it's latest, which always points at the newest build, so a redeploy can bump you to a newer release without you asking. Newest right now is 1.30.4. Pin a specific tag if you would rather stay on one version.

Which machines it runs on

Every image is built for particular CPU types. This one ships for amd64, arm64, so it runs on both regular x86 servers and ARM boards like a Raspberry Pi.

Ports

A port is the door the app answers on. A mapping like 80:80 means it's reachable on port 80 of your server, where the left number is yours to change and the right one belongs to the app. Once it's running, open http://your-server-ip:80 in a browser. It opens:

  • 80:80, likely the web interface
  • 443:443, likely the web interface

Volumes

A volume is where Nginx keeps its files so they survive an update or a restart. Without one, anything it saves would sit inside the container and vanish the moment it's recreated. This template mounts:

  • /config from /srv/lsio/nginx/config on the host

Environment variables

Environment variables are the settings you hand over when you deploy, things like a password or a timezone. Nginx takes 5 of them, and 2 need a value before it'll start properly:

  • PUID, defaults to 1000. Run 'id [USER]' for the owner of the host volume directories to get the UID to use here.
  • PGID, defaults to 1000. Run 'id [USER]' for the owner of the host volume directories to get the GID to use here.
  • TZ, defaults to Etc/UTC. Specify a timezone to use, see this list.
  • NGINX_AUTORELOAD, needs a value. Set to true to enable automatic reloading of confs on change without stopping/restarting nginx. Your filesystem must support inotify. This functionality was previously offered via mod. [OPTIONAL]
  • NGINX_AUTORELOAD_WATCHLIST, needs a value. A pipe-separated list of additional folders for auto reload to watch in addition to /config/nginx [OPTIONAL]

Restart policy

The restart policy here is unless-stopped, so Docker restarts Nginx after a crash or reboot, but leaves it off when you stop it on purpose. You can change this on the deploy screen. The choices are no (never restart), on-failure (only after a crash), unless-stopped (restart unless you stop it), and always (bring it back no matter what).

Users and permissions

The PUID and PGID settings tell it which user and group to act as on your host. Point them at your own account (find yours with id $USER) so the files it writes into your mounted folders come out owned by you rather than root.

Networking

Nothing custom is set, so Nginx sits on Docker's default bridge network: its own private space that reaches the outside world only through the ports it publishes.

Container name

Once it's deployed, Portainer names the container Nginx. That's what you'll spot in the containers list and use in commands like docker logs Nginx.

Platform

The platform is linux, the kind of system the container is built to run on. Docker and Portainer handle this on a normal Linux server.

Portainer app templates

Zooming out, this whole page comes from a Portainer app template: a short recipe telling Portainer how to set Nginx up. Add the template list to Portainer once, then deploying Nginx is a click rather than a wall of config.