Can not access nginx container on a local windows machine

Question

I'm running an nginx container on a windows 10 machine. I've stripped it down to a bare minimum - an nginx image provided in the Docker hub. I'm running it using:

docker run --name ng -d -P nginx

This is the output of docker ps:

b5411ff47ca6 nginx "nginx -g 'daemon off" 22 seconds ago Up 21 seconds 0.0.0.0:32771->80/tcp, 0.0.0.0:32770->443/tcp ng

And this is the IP I'm getting when doing docker inspect ng: "IPAddress": "172.17.0.2"

So, the next thing I'm trying to do is access the Nginx server from the host machine by opening http://172.17.0.2:32771 in browser of the host machine. This is not working (host not found etc).

Please advise

Answer 1

1. Follow this article... https://docs.docker.com/get-started/part2/#run-the-app
2. And make sure your application is running not just docker.

docker run -d -p 4000:80 friendlyhello

After this on Windows 10 host machine

1. Worked http://192.168.99.100:4000/
2. Not working: http://localhost:4000/

Answer 2

On windows, you are using Docker Toolbox, and the IP you need is 192.168.99.100 (which is the IP of the Docker Toolbox VM). The IP you got is the IP of the container inside the VM, which is not accessible directly from Windows.