nginx use system env. var. - duongphuhiep/blog1 GitHub Wiki

Don't do this in an nginx Dockerfile

# CMD ["nginx", "-g", "daemon off;"] => NO, don't do this! 1. it is not neccessary and 2. it will disable the nginx template envsubst: https://github.com/nginxinc/docker-nginx/issues/422#issuecomment-644299743

https://www.baeldung.com/linux/nginx-config-environment-variables

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CMD ["/bin/sh" , "-c" , "envsubst '$USER_NAME $PASSWORD $KEY' < /nginx.conf.template > /etc/nginx/nginx.conf && exec nginx -g 'daemon off;'"]

start.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
export DOLLAR='$'
envsubst < nginx.conf.template > /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
nginx -g "daemon off;"

proxy_set_header        X-Forwarded-Host ${DOLLAR}host;