Serve static content using docker + nginx + php-fpm

Solution 1:

I managed to solve the problem by mounting the webapp volume in the nginx container. This is what the run-nginx job looks like now:

run-nginx:
    docker run --rm \
    --name=nginx \
    --net=internal-net \
    --volume=$(PWD)$(CONFIG)/webapp.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/webapp.domain.com.conf:ro \
    --volume=$(PWD)$(WEBAPP)/web:/var/www/webapp/web:ro \
    -p 80:80 \
    nginx:1.11.0-alpine

And this is the webapp.conf file, that will try to load the static files from the container and, if that's not possible will proxy the request to the fpm worker:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name webapp.domain.com;

    root /var/www/webapp/web;

    location ~ \.(js|css|png) {
        try_files $uri $uri/;
    }

    location / {
        rewrite ^(.*)$ /index.php$1 last;
    }

    location ~ ^/index\.php(/|$) {
        include fastcgi_params;

        fastcgi_pass webapp:9000;
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.*)$;

        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_param HTTPS off;
    }
}

However, I'd like to know if there's a better way to do so instead of sharing the same volume twice. Thanks a lot!