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List available docker images:

docker search nginx

Download official image:

docker pull nginx

Create persistent directory:

mkdir -p /app/persistent_docker/nginx
cd /app/persistent_docker/nginx
mkdir www conf logs

Create /app/persistent_docker/nginx/conf/nginx.conf:

events {

}
error_log         /wwwlogs/error.log info;
http {

  server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  localhost;
    access_log    /wwwlogs/access.log  combined;
    location / {
        root   /www/demo;
        index  index.html index.htm;
    }
  }

Create then root directory for default site:

mkdir /app/persistent_docker/nginx/www/demo
echo "Hello world" > /app/persistent_docker/nginx/www/demo/index.html

Start the container:

docker run \
	-p 80:80 -p 443:443 \
    --name nginx \
    -v /etc/letsencrypt:/etc/letsencrypt \
    -v /app/persistent_docker/nginx/www:/www \
    -v /app/persistent_docker/nginx/conf:/etc/nginx \
    -v /app/persistent_docker/nginx/logs:/wwwlogs \
    -d nginx  

In order to use docker-compose, create docker-compose.yml:

services:
  nginx:
    image: nginx
    restart: always
    volumes:
     - /etc/letsencrypt:/etc/letsencrypt
     - /app/persistent_docker/nginx/www:/www
     - /app/persistent_docker/nginx/conf:/etc/nginx
     - /app/persistent_docker/nginx/logs:/wwwlogs
    ports:
     - 80:80
     - 443:443

Start the container and set the autostart:

docker-compose up -d
docker update --restart unless-stopped nginx