creating docker container to host website - apache

I want to run static website inside a docker container.
For this i have create ubuntu EC2 machine,installed docker and pulled centos image.
docker pull centos
docker run -td 9f38484d220f bash
docker exec -it aa779e39eb0f bash
===>now inside the container i am using below command
yum update
yum install apache
service httpd start
but i am getting command not recognized error.
Please help me figure out what i am doing wrong.
Also i as i want to run static website i will be putting below code once apache is installed successfully
$touch /var/www/html/index.html
$chkconfig httpd on
$echo "<b>Hii this is my first conatiner running/b>"
>> /var/www/html/index.html
Is this correct way of doing it ?

You installed apache and you are trying to run httpd. Refer this to read the difference between apache2 and httpd. You can run following commands to install apache and run a static hello world page on local host.
$ sudo yum update -y
$ sudo yum install -y httpd
$ sudo service httpd start
$ echo "<html><h1>Hello World!</h1></html>" > test
$ cat test > /var/www/html/index.html

You don't need a container for hosting a static website. S3 is a better choice for this.
If you want to do it as an exercice, considere this simple nginx solution, see: https://hub.docker.com/_/nginx
You have an example in the section : Hosting some simple static content
FROM nginx:alpine
COPY . /usr/share/nginx/html
Remember that you usually don't start a container then start a service inside (for testing and debugging). Entrypoint and command are what start your service, aka what you would manually do.

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Why can I access my Apache default page ONLY when I go in my container's bash?

First of all, I would like to say that I'm new to Docker and all that is around it.
I have been wanting to make a container where I have Apache, php and Firebird installed. So far, so good ; everything seems to work and I can get my default page when I type in my Internet search bar my ip address and :8080. I do so by first starting my container like this :
docker run -p 8080:80 -d apps
Where "apps" is the name of my container.
I have achieved this with my Dockerfile, which looks like this (it might be a bit messy, still learning the good practices !) :
# Download of base image - ubuntu 20.04
FROM ubuntu:20.04
# Updating/upgrading
RUN apt-get update -y && apt-get upgrade -y
# Installing apache2, php and firebird with modules
RUN DEBIAN_FRONTEND="noninteractive" apt-get install apache2 php libapache2-mod-php -y && \
apt-get install php-curl php-gd php-intl php-json php-mbstring php-xml php-zip -y && \
DEBIAN_FRONTEND="noninteractive" apt-get install firebird3.0-server -y && apt-get install firebird->
# Start up apache in foreground by default
CMD /usr/sbin/apache2 -D FOREGROUND
ENTRYPOINT service apache2 restart && /bin/bash
# Expose apache
EXPOSE 80
Now, my idea was to export this container to another computer and try the same thing. I have followed a few tutorials and got to import my container on the new machine. My problem here is that somehow, the command I previously used doesn't work ; it shows me this error :
docker: Error response from daemon: No command specified.
See 'docker run --help'.
Which is odd, because it works just fine on the other machine. I also did this command, WHICH WORKS :
docker run -i -t -p 8080:80 apps /bin/bash
This one works alright, but I don't want to have to access the bash everytime I want my Apache page to load. I would want my container to run without me having to get in my container, if that makes sense.
In my opinion, it probably comes from the fact that I only loaded the container, and not the image used to build it (maybe a bad practice? Couldn't find anything about it on google).
Here is my setup just in case ---
On the first machine (which is the one where I created the image and the container) :
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Apache/2.4.41
Docker 19.03.8
On the other machine which I'm trying to make my container work :
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Apache/2.4.29
Docker 19.03.6
Thank you for your patience and time !
apps is your docker image, if you want to give name for your container you can specify --name in the run command ie,
docker run --name container_name -p 8080:80 -d apps
You can use sudo docker save -o apps.tar apps to create a tar file of the image
then change the root permission of the tar file sudo chmod 777 apps.tar
Copy this tar file to the other system you want to try, then
sudo docker load --input apps.tar
This will load the image, then you can use the previous command to start the container
docker run -p 8080:80 -d apps
Where "apps" is the name of my container. <- This statement is incorrect and perhaps the misunderstood concept that leads you to the problem.
apps is the name of the image, not the name of the container. On the host on which you can run the container, you must have built that image from the Dockerfile that you shared using the command:
docker build -t apps .
Copy the Dockerfile on the host where you cannot run the container, built the image in-there as well and try again running the container.

Unable to start docker - httpd (pid 1) already running

I have hosted one docker with PHP in a shared server of our office environments. Previously it was working fine without any issue. All the users were able to access the site via port forwarding to 8080. Here is my docker file details -
# Choose Repo from Docker Hub
FROM centos:latest
# Provide details of maintainer
MAINTAINER ritu
#Install necessary software
RUN yum -y install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
RUN yum -y install http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm
RUN yum -y install yum-utils
RUN yum-config-manager --enable remi-php56
RUN yum -y install php php-mcrypt php-cli php-gd php-curl php-mysql php-ldap php-zip php-fileinfo php-devel php-pear make gcc systemtap-sdt-devel httpd unzip postfix
RUN export PHP_DTRACE=yes
RUN curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
RUN mv -f composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
RUN chmod +x /usr/local/bin/composer
RUN composer require phpmailer/phpmailer
COPY phpinfo.php /var/www/html/
COPY php.ini /var/www/
COPY httpd.conf /var/www/
RUN cp -f /var/www/httpd.conf /etc/httpd/conf/
COPY *.rpm /var/www/
#Install & Configure OCI for PHP
COPY oci8-2.0.12.tgz /
RUN tar -xvf oci8-2.0.12.tgz
RUN yum -y localinstall /var/www/*.rpm --nogpgcheck
COPY client.sh /etc/profile.d/
RUN chmod +x /etc/profile.d/client.sh
RUN cp -f /var/www/php.ini /etc/
COPY php_oci8_int.h oci8-2.0.12/
COPY Log_Check.zip /
RUN unzip Log_Check.zip
RUN cp -a -R /Log_Check/* /var/www/html/
WORKDIR /oci8-2.0.12
RUN phpize
RUN ./configure --with-oci8=/usr/lib/oracle/12.2/client64
RUN cp -f /usr/include/oracle/12.2/client64/*.h /oci8-2.0.12/include/
RUN make
RUN make install
RUN ls /var/www/html/
RUN rm -rf /var/run/apache2/apache2.pid
#Expose necessary ports
EXPOSE 80
EXPOSE 1521
EXPOSE 25
#Provide Entrypoint
CMD ["-D", "FOREGROUND"]
ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/sbin/httpd"]
Suddenly one of my friend added another docker with same port 8080 in the same server. After that my docker got stopped. with below error -
AH00558: httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 172.18.0.3. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message
httpd (pid 1) already running
After several hours of googling and after trying lots of commands, I found that its easy to remove the entire container as well as images from the server. Hence I removed all containers with docker rm followed by image deletion with docker rmi. Again i have recreated the docker image on my local system (its working here) and transferred to server. Again I tried to run the docker. But faced same issue again.
Unable to find out the cause & solution. Need some help.
first remove ENTRYPOINT from your Dockerfile and just use:
CMD [ "/usr/sbin/httpd", "-X" ]
the warning regarding AH00558 is comming from your configuration and it i complaining about you do not use www.test.com you can ignore that for now and apache will still working. if you want to read more see this

Apache Tomcat 8 not starting within a docker container

I am experimenting with Docker and am very new to it. I am struck at a point for a long time and am not getting a way through and hence came up with this question here...
Problem Statement:
I am trying to create an image from a docker file containing Apache and lynx installation. Once done I am trying to access tomcat on 8080 of the container which is in turn forwarded to the 8082 of the host. But when running the image I never get tomcat started in the container.
The Docker file
FROM ubuntu:16.10
#Install Lynx
Run apt-get update
Run apt-get install -y lynx
#Install Curl
Run apt-get install -y curl
#Install tools: jdk
Run apt-get update
Run apt-get install -y openjdk-8-jdk wget
#Install apache tomcat
Run groupadd tomcat
Run useradd -s /bin/false -g tomcat -d /opt/tomcat tomcat
Run cd /tmp
Run curl -O http://apache.mirrors.ionfish.org/tomcat/tomcat- 8/v8.5.12/bin/apache-tomcat-8.5.12.tar.gz
Run mkdir /opt/tomcat
Run tar xzvf apache-tomcat-8*tar.gz -C /opt/tomcat --strip-components=1
Run cd /opt/tomcat
Run chgrp -R tomcat /opt/tomcat
Run chmod -R g+r /opt/tomcat/conf
Run chmod g+x /opt/tomcat/conf
Run chown -R tomcat /opt/tomcat/webapps /opt/tomcat/work /opt/tomcat/temp opt/tomcat/logs
Run cd /opt/tomcat/bin
Expose 8080
CMD /opt/tomcat/bin/catalina.sh run && tail -f /opt/tomcat/logs/catalina.out
When the image is built I tried running the container by the two below methods
docker run -d -p 8082:8080 imageid tail -f /dev/null
While using the above, container is running but tomcat is not started inside the container and hence not accessible from localhost:8082. Also I do not see anything if I perform docker logs longcontainerid
docker run -d -p 8082:8080 imageid /path/to/catalina.sh start tail -f /dev/null
I see tomcat started when I do docker logs longconatainrid
While using the above the container is started and stopped immediately and is not running as I can see from docker ps and hence again not accessible from localhost:8082.
Can anyone please tell me where I am going wrong?
P.s. I searched a lot on the internet but could not get the thing right. Might be there is some concept that i am not getting clearly.
Looking at the docker run command documentation, the doc states that any command passed to the run will override the original CMD in your Dockerfile:
As the operator (the person running a container from the image), you can override that CMD instruction just by specifying a new COMMAND
1/ Then when you run:
docker run -d -p 8082:8080 imageid tail -f /dev/null
The container is run with COMMAND tail -f /dev/null, the original command starting tomcat is overridden.
To resolve your problem, try to run:
docker run -d -p 8082:8080 imageid
and
docker log -f containerId
To see if tomcat is correctly started.
2/ You should not use the start argument with catalina.sh. Have a look at this official tomcat Dokerfile, the team uses :
CMD ["catalina.sh", "run"]
to start tomcat (when you use start, docker ends container at the end of the shell script and tomcat will start but not maintain a running process).
3/ Finally, why don't you use tomcat official image to build your container? You could just use the :
FROM tomcat:latest
directive at the beginning of your Dockerfile, and add you required elements (new files, webapps war, settings) to the docker image.

Apache2 Container on BlueMix won't stay up

I've started with IBM's image:
registry.ng.bluemix.net/ibmnode:latest
It's Ubuntu 14.04, I then add Apache2 on, do some file copies of my site, and then EXPOSE 443. Lastly, I invoke a bash script with the following:
#!/bin/bash
set -e
rm -f /usr/local/apache2/logs/httpd.pid
exec /usr/sbin/apache2ctl -DFOREGROUND
When I run the container locally, it works fine and serves up what I need. When BlueMix builds from the Dockerfile, that works without error. Then deploys to a container successfully. Immediately after deploy, the container registers as 'STOPPED'. Restarting brings it up and then back down within a few seconds. 'cf ic logs my-process-id' doesn't show any feedback.
Other things I've tried:
ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/sbin/apache2ctl", "-D", "FOREGROUND"]
Using service apache2 restart
Dockerfile:
FROM registry.ng.bluemix.net/ibmnode:latest
RUN apt-get install -y apache2
RUN apt-get install -y nano
# ADD SSL
RUN a2enmod ssl
RUN a2enmod proxy_http
WORKDIR /var/www/dist
RUN mv ./* /var/www/html
COPY docker/httpd-foreground.sh /usr/local/bin/
EXPOSE 443
CMD ["httpd-foreground.sh"]
httpd-foreground.hs:
#!/bin/bash
set -e
rm -f /usr/local/apache2/logs/httpd.pid
exec /usr/sbin/apache2ctl -DFOREGROUND
What you are trying to do is getting node image, installing apache and overriding the command, and trying to run in the foreground. This is not really a good way to run a apache container on bluemix.
You should do something like this:
1. Follow information in here to pull the httpd image to your local, push the local image to your bluemix name space.
- docker pull httpd:2.4
- docker tag httpd:2.4 registry.ng.bluemix.net//httpd
- docker push registry.ng.bluemix.net//http
2. Once the image is pushed to your namespace, you can create custom image with your Dockerfile, note that I assume you have your website content in public-html folder
FROM registry.ng.bluemix.net//httpd:2.4 COPY ./public-html/
/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/ EXPOSE 80
Build your image
cf ic build --tag myhttp .
Run the container:
cf ic run --name myhttp -p 80 registry.ng.bluemix.net/<yourNameSpace>/myhttp
Bind IP address, using
cf ic bind <IP> myhttp
Access your container with the IP you bound

How to auto start web services when starting an Amazon EC2 instance?

How do I set the httpd and mysqld services to start automatically upon booting an amazon-ec2 instance?
Currently I have to start them manually by connecting to the instance via ssh and running sudo service httpd start and sudo service mysqld start.
Rather than starting over with a new AMI, you could just issue the following commands on an Amazon Linux EC2 instance...
sudo chkconfig mysqld on
sudo chkconfig httpd on
You can check the settings before & after enabling these services to start on boot using the following commands...
sudo chkconfig --list mysqld
sudo chkconfig --list httpd
See all services using just...
sudo chkconfig --list
NOTE: If you are having any trouble with chkconfig being in root's path, you can try specifying the full path like this...
sudo /sbin/chkconfig mysqld on
sudo /sbin/chkconfig httpd on
It is different between Amazon Linux 1 and Amazon Linux 2.
Amazon Linux 1
In AmazonLinux1, use chkconfig command.
$ sudo chkconfig mysqld on
$ sudo chkconfig httpd on
Amazon Linux2
In AmazonLinux2, systemd was introduced. So, chkconfig is legacy command. You should use systemctl. It is a control command for systemd.
$ sudo systemctl enable mysqld
$ sudo systemctl enable httpd
You can confirm it is enabled or not using by is-enabled command.
$ sudo systemctl is-enabled mysqld
enabled
chkconfig command request will be forwarded to systemctl.
$ chkconfig mysqld on
Note: Forwarding request to 'systemctl enable mysqld.service'.
If you using Amazon Linux 2 AMI you need to follow these steps:
In AMI2 they are using systemctl for managing services check if it is installed on your machine
2.systemctl list-units --type=service by this command check if tomcat.service is listed
sudo systemctl enable tomcat.service To eanable tomcat start on boot up
systemctl is-enabled tomcat.service To check if tomcat enabled to start on boot up linux system
After that you can reboot your linux system and tomcat will be started.
For more about systemctl Click Here
One of my client wants to do this task and I have successfully done by using following way.
Following commands starts the services automatic when instance started.
Auto start apache/httpd
1) systemctl enable httpd
Auto start redis service
2) systemctl enable redis
I have set SELINUX set to disabled in
3) /etc/sysconfig/selinux
For mysql services
sudo chkconfig mysqld on
sudo chkconfig httpd on
I faced the similar problem, here is the solution i am suggesting,
you need to create a file under /etc/init.d directory, e.g with name tomcat, and change the JAVA_HOME and CATALINA_HOME parameters as per your system installation.
Once you do setup this file then run the below command:
sudo chkconfig <file-name> on
where is the file you have created in /etc/init.d it is tomcat in my case.
[ec2-user#ip-<myip> init.d]$ cat tomcat
#!/bin/bash
# description: Tomcat Start Stop Restart
# processname: tomcat
# chkconfig: 234 20 80
JAVA_HOME=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.96
export $JAVA_HOME
PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
export PATH
CATALINA_HOME=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.96
case $1 in
start)
sh $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh
;;
stop)
sh $CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh
;;
restart)
sh $CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh
sh $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh
;;
esac
exit 0
chmod 755 tomcat
chkconfig --add tomcat
chkconfig --level 234 tomcat on
chkconfig --list tomcat
service tomcat start
ReactJS on Amazon Linux2 process:
Installing ReactJS on EC2 and running the app at boot:
Once you connect to EC2 instance install NodeJS. Follow this tutorial:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-javascript/v2/developer-guide/setting-up-node-on-ec2-instance.html
Install httpd server using this tutorial: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/CHAP_Tutorials.WebServerDB.CreateWebServer.html
I used Git Clone to clone the ReactJS app on to /home/ec2-user.
Install Yarn using the command “npm install yarn -g”
Execute the following commands in the cloned project: “Yarn” and then “Yarn build”
Now Copy the build folder using : cp -a /build/. /var/www/html/
Now go to the /var/www/html/ here create a .htaccess file using vi and include the following content: “Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.html [QSA,L]”
Save the file with :wq
Now in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf search for Directory with “/var/www/html” attribute and change “AllowOverride None” to “AllowOverride All”. Now open the browser and enter http://ec2-ip or http://ec2-url you will see the default page
Enter the command “systemctl enable httpd” and then “systemctl start httpd” on AmazonLinux2. Now you can access the app on boot rather than running the app again and again.
You are complete.
The best way on Amazon Linux 2 is to use the following bash script on creation. This will install the updates, start Apache2, make it listed as a service so that it automatically restarts upon reboot, and the creation of an index.html and health.html sample files. Configuring a health page is important for application loadbalancers and for autoscaling groups.
#!/bin/bash
yum update -y
yum install httpd -y httpd-tools mod_ssl
service httpd start
chkconfig httpd on
systemctl start httpd
systemctl enable httpd
echo "Hello, World, from your Webserver on Amazon Linux" > /var/www/html/index.html
echo "Healthy" > /var/www/html/health.html
Cheers!
Either use any of the preexisting LAMP AMI, it will have both of them running as service already.
One example is BitNami, you will find several other when you fire an ec2 instance.