Docs: clarify "daemon: off;"

[martinlindhe]

Hi =) Just wanted to share this as i scratched my head a while on this issue.

In the https://hub.docker.com/_/nginx/ page, the reader is encouraged to add "daemon: off;" to their nginx.conf, in this text:

Be sure to include daemon off; in your custom configuration to ensure that Nginx stays in the foreground so that Docker can track the process properly (otherwise your container will stop immediately after starting)!

however in https://github.com/nginxinc/docker-nginx/blob/master/Dockerfile#L22 it is explicit set, which ends up in something like this

2015/09/06 14:13:48 [emerg] 1#1: "daemon" directive is duplicate in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:4
nginx: [emerg] "daemon" directive is duplicate in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:4

[md5]

This is a duplicate of docker-library/docs#316

[md5]

Not sure which one should be closed.

[andrefreitas]

Please add in the documentation the right way to start nginx in a docker-entrypoint.sh. Lost hours figuring it out that need to write 'daemon off;' as a string param.

exec nginx -g 'daemon off;' "$@"

[bacongobbler]

@andrefreitas see https://github.com/deis/registry-proxy for a real-life example on how this image is used.

Specifically https://github.com/deis/registry-proxy/blob/master/rootfs/bin/boot

[tianon]

Docs PR is merged now (docker-library/docs#772) 👍 ❤️

[andreif]

@tianon Yeah, but it's not how @andrefreitas suggested

[gbelangervip]

Wanted to add that if you are running a command like docker run --name some-nginx -d -p 8080:80 nginx , you need to remove the -d and that should fix the problem. If you have -d in the master process command there is no amount of 'daemon off' that will turn it off.