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Best way to dockerize a static website? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 8 months ago by Dirk@lemmy.ml to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I'm currently researching the best method for running a static website from Docker.

The site consists of one single HTML file, a bunch of CSS files, and a few JS files. On server-side nothing needs to be preprocessed. The website uses JS to request some JSON files, though. Handling of the files is doing via client-side JS, the server only need to - serve the files.

The website is intended to be used as selfhosted web application and is quite niche so there won't be much load and not many concurrent users.

I boiled it down to the following options:

  1. BusyBox in a selfmade Docker container, manually running httpd or The smallest Docker image ...
  2. php:latest (ignoring the fact, that the built-in webserver is meant for development and not for production)
  3. Nginx serving the files (but this)

For all of the variants I found information online. From the options I found I actually prefer the BusyBox route because it seems the cleanest with the least amount of overhead (I just need to serve the files, the rest is done on the client).

Do you have any other ideas? How do you host static content?

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[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 8 months ago

Absolutely, but it has a built-in webserver that can serve static files, too (I constantly use that in my dev environment).

How about Python? You can get an HTTP server going with just python3 -m http.server from the dir where the files are. Worth remembering because Python is super common and probably already installed in many places (be it on host or in containers).

[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

I once built a router in Python, but it was annoying. The much I like Python, the much I dislike coding in it. Just firing up a web server with it is no big deal, though.

I was even thinking of node.js, but this comes with a whole different set of issues. It would allow for future extensions of the project on the server-side, though.

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 8 months ago

What do you use for Node containers? I use an Alpine image where I install Node but I've been wondering if there's a better way.

[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

Would be my first one. I'd likely go the Alpine route, too. It's used as option for the Docker official image.

https://hub.docker.com/_/node/tags?page=1&name=alpine

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