Docker container for lighttpd on port 8080.

Dockerfile

FROM alpine:3.3

# referred from https://hub.docker.com/r/sebp/lighttpd/
MAINTAINER Arul <[email protected]>

RUN apk add --update lighttpd \
  && rm -rf /var/cache/apk/* \
  && sed -i.bak "s/server.document-root/#server.document-root/g" /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf \
  && echo server.document-root = var.basedir >> /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf \
  && echo server.port = 8080 >> /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf \
  && echo server.network-backend = \"writev\" >> /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

EXPOSE 8080

VOLUME /var/www/localhost
WORKDIR /var/www/localhost

ENTRYPOINT ["lighttpd", "-D", "-f", "/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf"]

Build this as container

Download the dockerfile.

curl -ksSL https://gist.githubusercontent.com/arulrajnet/ab5de5b57f4a796ba8555802619a019f/raw/Dockerfile > Dockerfile
docker build -t arulrajnet/lighttpd:latest .

The size of the image is 6.161 MB

Using that container

Mount your files into /var/www/localhost

docker run --name lighttpd \
-v ${PWD}/html:/var/www/localhost \
-p 8080:8080 \
-d arulrajnet/lighttpd:latest

Now you can access in http://localhost:8080/