MyWebServer

A minimal Dockerized static website served with Nginx.

Contents

• Dockerfile — builds an Nginx image and copies html/ into the container.
• html/index.html — static site content.
• nginx.yml — Ansible playbook to install and run Nginx (local demo).
• inventory — Ansible inventory for local testing.
• .gitignore — files to ignore.
• LICENSE — license for the project.

Quick start — run locally with Docker

1. Build the image:

docker build -t my-nginx .

2. Run the container and map port 8080:

docker run -d --iveey my-nginx -p 8080:80 my-nginx

3. Open http://localhost:8080 (or http://<host-ip>:8080).

Run with Docker Compose (optional)

If you add a docker-compose.yml in future, a typical command is:

docker compose up --build

Provision a system with Ansible (local demo)

The included nginx.yml playbook demonstrates installing Nginx using Ansible on localhost.

# run locally (this playbook uses become and will prompt for your sudo password)
ansible-playbook -i inventory nginx.yml --ask-become-pass

Deploy options

• GitHub Pages — best for pure static sites. Push html/ to the gh-pages branch.
• Render / Railway / Fly.io — use your Docker image or connect repository for automated deploys.
• AWS EC2 — copy project to an Ubuntu instance and docker build there or use a registry + user-data.

Security / Notes

• Do not commit private keys, .pem files, or .env with secrets. Add them to .gitignore.
• For production, run behind HTTPS (TLS) and use a reverse proxy (managed SSL) or a load balancer.

Contributing

1. Fork the repo.
2. Create a topic branch: git checkout -b feat/add-awesome.
3. Make small, focused commits with clear messages.
4. Open a pull request describing the change and testing steps.

License

This repository is available under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.