NGINX HTTPS static gzipped file server

This project leverages NGINX docker image, H5BP configs and Certbot image to provide a plug and play HTTPS static gzipped file server with subdomain capabilities.

Requirements

You will need a machine with internet connection, Docker, Docker Compose and docker storage base directory properly setted.

Description of configuration

Domain redirects

Lets say that our root domain is example.com and en.example.com is a subdomain, this configuration redirects:

1. example.com to www.example.com.
2. www.en.example.com to en.example.com.

Protocol redirect

This configuration redirects HTTP requests to their HTTPS counterpart.

Page handling defaults

1. Folder index is index.html.
2. Missing page should be /thispagedoesntexist.html, otherwise default NGINX 404 page is returned.
3. An URL without a page extension is valid, for ex. www.example.com/index

Folder structure

The the domain root is /var/www (in-container folder), the data should follow the structure /var/www/subdomainname/html/subdomaindata, for ex.:

/var/www/
├── en/html/
│   ├── index.html.gz
│   ├── thispagedoesntexist.html.gz
│   ├── loremipsum.html.gz
│   ├── awesome/
│   │   ├── index.html.gz
│   │   │── aprimatesmemoir.html.gz
│   │   └── .../
│   └── .../
├── www/html/
│   ├── index.html.gz
│   ├── thispagedoesntexist.html.gz
│   └── .../
└── .../

Useful commands

1. curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ebonetti/tatic/master/docker-compose.yml | DOMAIN=example.com EMAIL=email@example.com PATH2DATA=/path/2/your/dir docker-compose -f - config | tee docker-compose.yml Download and set up your configuration file, setting up the domain as example.com, the mail (used for HTTPS certificate request) as email@example.com and setting the website folder to /path/2/your/dir.
2. docker-compose up Start NGINX server and certbot certificate requests.
3. docker-compose up -d Start detatched.
4. docker-compose pull Update images to the last revision.
5. docker-compose down Stop and remove container and networks.
6. docker-compose logs -f Fetch and follow the logs.
7. docker-compose ps Check containers status.
8. docker system prune -fa --volumes Remove system wide all unused images, containers and volumes (with old certificates) without asking for confirmation.