Start an NGINX-Docker-container to serve local html-files on a given port

nginx_container.sh

#!/bin/sh

function syntax {
  echo "NGINX CONTAINER"
  echo ""
  echo "  Starts a docker container on a given port for a given html-root"
  echo "  directory. Andreas Altendorfer, 2020-10-14, Free Software."
  echo ""
  echo "Syntax:"
  echo "  nginx_container COMMAND NAME PORT HTML_PATH"
  echo ""
  echo "Commands:"
  echo "  start, stop, status"
  echo ""
  echo "Example:"
  echo "  nginx_container start mywiki 8888 /home/yours/doc/html"
  echo "  nginx_container stop mywiki 8888 /home/yours/doc/html"
  echo "  nginx_container status mywiki 8888 /home/yours/doc/html"
  echo ""
  exit 1
}

[ -z "$1" ] &&  syntax
COMMAND=$1

[ -z "$2" ] &&  syntax
NAME=$2

[ -z "$3" ] &&  syntax
PORT=$3

[ -z "$4" ] &&  syntax
HTML=$4


case $COMMAND in
  start)
    echo "Starting container $NAME, port $PORT, path $HTML"
    docker run --name $NAME --rm \
      -v $HTML:/usr/share/nginx/html:ro \
      -p $PORT:80 \
      -d nginx:mainline-alpine
    ;;
  status)
    echo "Status $NAME"
    docker ps --filter="name=$NAME"
    ;;
  stop)
    echo "Stopping $NAME..."
    docker stop $NAME
    ;;
  *)
    echo "Unknown command"
    ;;
esac