Docker Apache HTTPD

A Dockerfile installing Apache 2.4 from source. Built on Alpine Linux.

Usage

• Pull docker image and run:

docker pull alfg/httpd
docker run -d -p 8080:80 --rm alfg/httpd

• or build and run container from source:

docker build -t httpd 
docker run -d -p 8080:80 --rm httpd

• or build using docker-compose:

docker-compose build
docker-compose up

• cURL the server to verify:

$ curl -I localhost:8080/index.html

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 23:56:07 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.39 (Unix)
Last-Modified: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 23:55:34 GMT
ETag: "86-58e9e47322980"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 134
Content-Type: text/html

Please note the container must be run in daemon mode, and not interactive due to Apache HTTPD shutting down on SIGWINCH signal. This is by design.

• docker-library/httpd#9
• https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50669

Configure

Apache HTTPD default configurations are included in the etc directory. You can override the configurations and these will be copied over into the container.

Also see etc/httpd/sites/ for adding or editing virtual hosts.

Resources

• http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/install.html