# Running Nginx container using Docker

### To start setting up Nginx container

Step 1: Pull the latest image from docker hub (https://hub.docker.com)

```bash
docker pull nginx
```

Step 2: Create a new directory on your machine from where you want to serve the html files.

```bash
mkdir nginx-html
```

Step 3: cd into that directory

```bash
cd nginx-html
```

Step 4: Create index.html and whatever files you like, using any text editor.

Step 5: Run this command to start the container

```bash
docker run -d -p 8000:80 -v /YOUR_HTML_FILES_ABSOLUTE_DIRECTORY_PATH:/usr/share/nginx/html --name my-nginx-container nginx
```

### To stop the container

```bash
docker stop my-nginx-container
```

### To start the container again

```bash
docker start my-nginx-container
```

### To remove the stopped container

```bash
docker rm my-nginx-container
```


### To remove the running container

```bash
docker rm my-nginx-container -f
```

## Authors

- [**Truly Mittal**](https://trulymittal.com)

## License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.