Nginx for serving your current directory static HTML locally in one command

README.md

How to provide a quick web server to test your static content

Warning: this is going to work for a fish shell on a Mac host.

Add the function to your fish shell, e.g.

source serve_static_web_docker.fish

Then go to your path (warning, make sure there is an index.html file)

cd my/path/to/html
serve

Your browser will open the page and your terminal will show logs from nginx.

serve_static_web_docker.fish

function serve
    # Remove image if exists
    docker rm -f webservestatic
    # Launch nginx
    docker run -d -v (pwd):/usr/share/nginx/html --name webservestatic -p 80:80 nginx
    # Remove caching related to Vitualbox
    docker exec -it webservestatic bash -c "sed -i 's/localhost;/localhost;\n\tsendfile off;/' /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf && nginx -s reload"
    # Open web 'localhost' or (docker-machine ip dev), it depends
    open http://(boot2docker ip) &
    # Show logs
    docker logs -f webservestatic
end