Nginx SSL inside a docker container - nginx

Question

I have configured a Docker container to run Nginx and setup the /etc/nginx/sites-available/default file as shown below
server
{
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
server_name example.com;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
}
error_page 404 /404.html;
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
server
{
listen 443;
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
server_name example.com;
ssl on;
ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
}
error_page 404 /404.html;
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
I map the /etc/ssl/certs & /etc/ssl/private folders on the host when I run the docker container
docker run -dt -p 8080:443 -p 8081:80 -v /t-base/log:/var/log/nginx -v
/etc/ssl/certs:/etc/ssl/certs -v /etc/ssl/private:/etc/ssl/private nginx
Docker ps shows
Up n minutes 0.0.0.0:8081->80/tcp 0.0.0.0:8080->443/tcp <container-name>
and the nginx error log file inside the mapped /t-base/log folder stays empty.
docker exec -it <container-name> /bin/bash
followed by
service nginx status
just comes back and says that nginx is running.
All of the above would indicate that everything is working correctly. However, I find that whilst I am able to browse to
http://example.com:8080
turns up the default page
https://example.com:8081
has the Chrome showing me its default "sad smiley" error page. I cannot see what I might be doing wrong here. I'd much appreciate any help.

Answer 1

You have interchanged the ports. According to this command line -p 8080:443 -p 8081:80, you should do:
https://example.com:8080 note this is https
and
http://example.com:8081
This should work