I want to run static website inside a docker container.
For this i have create ubuntu EC2 machine,installed docker and pulled centos image.
docker pull centos
docker run -td 9f38484d220f bash
docker exec -it aa779e39eb0f bash
===>now inside the container i am using below command
yum update
yum install apache
service httpd start
but i am getting command not recognized error.
Please help me figure out what i am doing wrong.
Also i as i want to run static website i will be putting below code once apache is installed successfully
$touch /var/www/html/index.html
$chkconfig httpd on
$echo "<b>Hii this is my first conatiner running/b>"
>> /var/www/html/index.html
Is this correct way of doing it ?
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Answers
You installed apache and you are trying to run httpd. Refer this to read the difference between apache2 and httpd. You can run following commands to install apache and run a static hello world page on local host.
You don’t need a container for hosting a static website. S3 is a better choice for this.
If you want to do it as an exercice, considere this simple nginx solution, see: https://hub.docker.com/_/nginx
You have an example in the section : Hosting some simple static content
Remember that you usually don’t start a container then start a service inside (for testing and debugging). Entrypoint and command are what start your service, aka what you would manually do.