Using docker nginx as local server

docker-nginx.service

# @file /etc/systemd/system/docker-nginx.service
# @see https://docs.docker.com/articles/host_integration/

[Unit]
Description=nginx container
Requires=docker.service
After=docker.service

[Service]
Restart=always
ExecStart=/usr/bin/docker start -a nginx
ExecStop=/usr/bin/docker stop -t 60 nginx

[Install]
WantedBy=local.target

how-to-control-nginx-container.sh

# start container
sudo systemctl start docker-nginx

# stop container
sudo systemctl stop docker-nginx

# attach shell to container
docker exec -it nginx bash

# see the logs
docker logs nginx

# for more see
# https://hub.docker.com/_/nginx/
# https://docs.docker.com/articles/host_integration/

prepare.sh

# create config and data directory
mkdir -p $HOME/docker/nginx/{config,data}

# initially create the docker container
docker run --restart=on-failure:5 \
           --volume=$HOME/docker/nginx/config:/etc/nginx/conf.d \
           --volume=$HOME/docker/nginx/data:/var/www \
           --publish=80:80 \ 
           --hostname=nginx \
           --name=nginx \ 
           --detach=true \
           nginx:latest
           
# place your webserver vhost configuration in $HOME/docker/nginx/config
# and your web-files in $HOME/docker/nginx/data (internally used as /var/www)