NGINX does not communicate with the flask rest API. docker
NGINX does not communicate with the flask rest API. When I click localhost/api
If I hit localhost, I get the message from index.html, but I don’t get a json response when I hit /api
I want to use NGINX to serve my Angular 5 dist folder.
What is distance?
dist is the folder where all the other files my index.html, main.css and Angular 5 created for me after I ran ng build –prod
What is my problem?
- I want to use Angular 5 on the frontend
- I want my flask to be my rest API
- I want nginx to serve all static files (HTML, CSS, and javascript).
I want the user to enter all the static files that NGINX gives him in the URL ( http://localhost) and have my SPA application specify the location for ROUTES, except for API routes
If the user types (http://localhost/api), I want FLASK to control and provide the JSON response to the user, no matter how I say flask responds
My problem is that when the user clicks ##/api I get a 404 Page Not Found
WTF I’ve set the if is get/api in nginx for flask to take action
Look:
user nginx;
worker_processes 1;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log warn;
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
'$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
'"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log main;
sendfile on;
#tcp_nopush on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
gzip on;
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
# Configuration for the server
server {
listen 80;
server_name localhost;
location / {
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
index index.html;
expires -1;
add_header Pragma "no-cache";
add_header Cache-Control "no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0";
try_files $uri$args $uri$args/ $uri $uri/ /index.html =404;
proxy_pass http://localhost:5000/;
}
# location /api {
# proxy_pass http://flask_api:5000;
# proxy_set_header Host $host;
# }
}
}
I have a docker-compose file that looks like this :
docker-compose.yml
version: '3'
services:
nginx_demo:
image: nginx:1.13.7-alpine
container_name: nginx
restart: always
build:
context: .
dockerfile: nginx/Dockerfile
volumes:
- ./Client/dist:/usr/share/nginx/html
ports:
- "80:80"
depends_on:
- flask_api
flask_api:
# image: flask
container_name: flask_api
restart: always
build: ./Server
volumes:
- ./Server:/usr/src/app
ports:
- "5000:80"
This is in Server/api.py
''' Docker + python 3.6.3 '''
from flask import Flask
app = Flask(__name__)
@app.route('/api')
def hello():
return 'Hello Form Flask'
if __name__ == "__main__":
app.run(host="0.0.0.0", debug=True)
Here is my log after running docker-compose up
Creating flask_api ...
Creating flask_api ... done
Creating nginx ...
Creating nginx ... done
Attaching to flask_api, nginx
flask_api | * Running on http://0.0.0.0:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)
flask_api | * Restarting with stat
flask_api | * Debugger is active!
flask_api | * Debugger PIN: 718-970-762
nginx | 172.20.0.1 - - [10/Dec/2017:14:16:53 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 304 0 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/62.0.3202.94 Safari/537.36" "-"
nginx | 172.20.0.1 - - [10/Dec/2017:14:16:55 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 304 0 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/62.0.3202.94 Safari/537.36" "-"
nginx | 172.20.0.1 - - [10/Dec/2017:14:16:56 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 304 0 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/62.0.3202.94 Safari/537.36" "-"
nginx | 2017/12/10 14:16:59 [error] 5#5: *2 open() "/usr/share/nginx/html/api" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 172.20.0.1, server: localhost, request: "GET /api HTTP/1.1", host: " localhost"
nginx | 172.20.0.1 - - [10/Dec/2017:14:16:59 +0000] "GET /api HTTP/1.1" 404 571 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/62.0.3202.94 Safari/537.36" "-"
nginx | 172.20.0.1 - - [10/Dec/2017:14:17:01 +0000] "GET /api HTTP/1.1" 404 571 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/62.0.3202.94 Safari/537.36" "-"
nginx | 2017/12/10 14:17:01 [error] 5#5: *2 open() "/usr/share/nginx/html/api" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 172.20.0.1, server: localhost, request: "GET /api HTTP/1.1", host: " localhost"
nginx | 2017/12/10 14:17:02 [error] 5#5: *2 open() "/usr/share/nginx/html/api" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 172.20.0.1, server: localhost, request: "GET /api HTTP/1.1", host: " localhost"
nginx | 172.20.0.1 - - [10/Dec/2017:14:17:02 +0000] "GET /api HTTP/1.1" 404 571 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/62.0.3202.94 Safari/537.36" "-"
Solution
This should work :
docker-compose.yml
# Run docker-compose up
version: '3'
services:
nginx_demo:
image: nginx:1.13.7-alpine
container_name: nginx
restart: always
build:
context: .
dockerfile: ./Nginx/Dockerfile
volumes:
- ./Client/dist:/usr/share/nginx/html
ports:
- "80:80"
depends_on:
- flask_api
links:
- flask_api
flask_api:
container_name: flask_api
restart: always
build:
context: .
dockerfile: ./Server/Dockerfile
volumes:
- ./Server:/usr/src/app
Nginx/Docker file
FROM nginx:1.13.7-alpine
# remove the old nginx.conf
RUN rm /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
# Copy custom nginx config
COPY ./Nginx/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
COPY ./Client/dist /usr/share/nginx/html
EXPOSE 80
Server/Dockerfile
FROM python:3.6-alpine
ADD ./Server /app
WORKDIR /app
RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
EXPOSE 5000
CMD ["python", "api.py"]
Nginx/nginx.conf
user nginx;
worker_processes 1;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log warn;
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
'$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
'"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log main;
sendfile on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
gzip on;
# Configuration for the server
server {
listen 80;
location /api {
proxy_pass http://flask_api:5000;
}
location / {
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
index index.html;
expires -1;
add_header Pragma "no-cache";
add_header Cache-Control "no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0";
try_files $uri$args $uri$args/ $uri $uri/ =404;
}
}
}