Getting forbidden error while using nginx inside docker

Question

My Docker file contents are

FROM nginx
COPY /src /usr/share/nginx/html

My docker compose file contents are

version: '2'
services:
  app:
    build: .
    image: app:1.0.0
    volumes:
    - ./src:/usr/share/nginx/html
    ports:
    - "8080:80"

I'm getting following error when run docker-compose

*1 directory index of "/usr/share/nginx/html/" is forbidden

I tried giving permission to directory -> /usr/share/nginx/html it didn't work.

I want to sync host directory with docker container.

Does you src contains a index.html file? If not, please create a sample file & test it. — vivekyad4v
You do not need to use COPY if you are using volume for src folder in docker compose. — vivekyad4v
Following this youtube video.. youtube.com/watch?v=LSyIE-bTt5U — Chinmay Kulkarni
This works for me, not sure what actually is getting missed. — vivekyad4v

Adiii Adiii · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-30T09:08:38

I was facing the same issue so the posting answer might help some else or some else looking for the same problem

I am running nginx official image.

docker run --rm --name some-nginx -p 8080:80 -v /test/html5-youtube.js/examples/:/usr/share/nginx/html -it nginx

I was getting this error.

[error] 8#8: *3 directory index of "/usr/share/nginx/html/" is *forbidden*, client: 172.17.0.1, server: localhost, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", host: "localhost:8080"

So when I check the directory permission it was wrong.

Check the user in nginx.conf in my case it is nginx so change file permission.

cd /usr/share/nginx/html
chown nginx:nginx ./*

and then I was able to get a response from the server.

172.17.0.1 - - [30/Oct/2018:09:04:52 +0000] "GET /html5-youtube.js HTTP/1.1" 404 571 "http://localhost:8080/player.html" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.77 Safari/537.36" "-"

Update:

Or add the permission at build time if you are not using bind volume.

RUN chown nginx:nginx /usr/share/nginx/html/*

Getting forbidden error while using nginx inside docker

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