# Run Docker Container Using Nginx Hi there, Here we are going to build a Docker image using Nginx and deploy one HTML page on the local host. ### **Creation of Html File** first we need to create one folder with name myproject ```plaintext mkdir myproject ``` in that folder we create vim file with name index.html ```plaintext vim index.html ``` now we create html file that we want after deploy the project ```plaintext COPY Welcome to nginx!

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``` ## Now we create Docker file in the same folder, myproject, create one more file, which is the Docker file ```plaintext vim Dockerfile ##write the given command FROM ubuntu RUN apt-get update RUN apt-get install -y nginx COPY index.html /var/www/html CMD ["nginx", "-g", "daemon off;"] ``` * Here we are fetching `ubuntu` image and then installing `nginx` over it. Ubuntu image provides access to `/bin/bash` as well. * `COPY` command is copying the index.html file present in the current directory to the default web page of nginx. * `CMD` is the command to start the nginx server in the foreground. ## Build docker file ```plaintext docker build -t mynginx ``` ## Running on the server ```plaintext docker run -d -p 8081:80 mynginx ``` Now just open the port 8081 from you ec2 - security- security inbound role-add port 8081 so we can connect that container on 8081 port and save it, Now copy public ip of your ec2 instance and open in new tab and suffix it :8081 and hit the enter you will see below page ![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1687405109039/950f0c43-d24c-456b-9f30-78fcfc970f3f.png align="center")